Miguel Filgueiras holds a degree in Fine Arts from ESAD — Caldas da Rainha. In 2003, he won the Young Creators Portuguese award, and in 2005, his work became part of the PLMJ Foundation Art Collection. His debut film, Alto do Minho (2012), is a documentary portrait of identity, spectacle, and ethnography in the Minho region. It was screened at 18 international documentary festivals between 2012 and 2014, among them the renowned Margaret Mead Film Festival. That same year, he was invited to speak at TEDx Guimarães, as part of the European Capital of Culture program. In 2016, he returned to essay filmmaking with Rendufe, premiered at Porto/Post/Doc. In 2019, he directed Black Bombaim, within the Criatório programme. The film won two international awards at alternative musical essay festivals in the USA and Sweden, being in the official selection of two important festivals in Portugal.
He lives and works in the city of Porto.
He lives and works in the city of Porto.
Integrated Researcher at ID+ - Research Center in Media, Arts and Design at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave. He has a PhD in Anthropology from FCSH-UNL, with research on the development of cultural and artistic activities in Portuguese prisons. He is a member of the AO NORTE Association, where he serves as Co-Director of the ENCONTROS Festival and coordinates the projects Fotomemória, Cartografia Afetiva, and Quem Somos Os Que Aqui Estamos? His current research focuses on the relationship between heritage, representation, and development in inland communities of northern Portugal. He also works as an independent consultant in Anthropology and Ethnography for the fields of documentary film and intangible heritage.