Filmmaker
Mário J. Negrão works in the fields of Photography, Video and Multimedia Design, and also develops work as a translator. He has a degree in Sound and Image from Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha (2008). It was there that he started developing work in audiovisual and multimedia design. During this period, he directed several short films, ranging from fiction to documentary.
In 2011, he founded the Collective Enfarte along with other artists, and in this context he was involved in several projects related to visual and performing arts. He exhibited collectively and individually several photographic essays and video-art pieces, among other works, at the Imaginarius Festival, BINNAR and NAA Festival.
In the following years, he lived and worked in several countries: Norway, France, Spain and Belgium. Between 2012 and 2015, in Antwerp, he worked as a cultural programmer and photographer / videographer, organizing and documenting concerts, film screenings and other artistic events in many key venues of the city's art scene: Korsakov, Cartoon's Cinema, Stockholm S. among others. He has also collaborated with the actors' agency Vinck en Partners and the music festival Acoustic Mortsel.
As a result of learning several languages, in 2015 he started working as a translator and editor for BARE International. Being able to work remotely, he decided to return to Portugal - after all, those are his roots.
Then there was a brief period when he lived in Porto, where, besides working as a freelance videographer and multimedia designer, he started a training program for theater makers entitled Recurso.
He currently lives in Barreiro, where he continues his activity as a videographer and collaborates with several entities, including Companhia Cepa Torta, OUT.ra, Terra Líquida Filmes, A Eira and Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas.
