Anna Petracca is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and Assistant Professor at the University of Maia, where she currently serves as coordinator of the Bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Art (since the 2024/25 academic year). She holds a PhD in Media Arts from the University of Beira Interior (2022) and a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Video from the State University of Paraná (2018). Between 2016 and 2017, she also attended the undergraduate program in Philosophy at UNINTER. Between 2021 and 2023, she participated as a researcher in the FCT-funded project Speculum: Filming Oneself and Seeing Oneself in the Mirror: The Use of Self-Writing by Portuguese-Language Documentary Filmmakers. In 2022, she defended her doctoral thesis entitled “The Subversion of Identity through Self-Representation in Women’s Video Art” within the Media Arts PhD program at the University of Beira Interior, graduating with the highest distinction (20/20). In 2018, she presented her undergraduate final project in Film and Video (UNESPAR), entitled “Authorship and the Filmmaking Process in Experimental Cinema and Documentary through the Films of Jonas Mekas”. In 2016, she took part in a mobility program between the Film and Video course at the State University of Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil) and the European Master’s Degree in Documentary Filmmaking (DocNomads) at Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies (Lisbon, Portugal), where she directed her first film, Corpo, which premiered the same year at the International Biennial Film Festival at the Curitiba Cinematheque. She has presented papers and published articles at several congresses, conferences, and academic seminars. In 2017/2018, she was an artist-in-residence at Galeria AIREZ (Curitiba), where she premiered her first video installation and video performance, XX/XXI, at the Curitiba International Biennial. She has also been involved in the production of film festivals such as the Porto Femme International Film Festival (Porto, Portugal) and FIDÉ Brasil – International Student Documentary Film Festival. She worked as director of photography and camera operator on the feature film A Alma do Gesto (2020), directed by Eduardo Baggio and Juslaine Abreu-Nogueira, which was screened at more than 16 festivals in 11 countries. Between 2015 and 2018, she worked as a freelance assistant and director of photography in the audiovisual field. Her academic and artistic research focuses primarily on issues of the body, gender, identity, creative processes, and (self-)representation. She currently teaches the following courses annually at the University of Maia: Interactive Multimedia Narratives; Semiotics of the Moving Image (Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Multimedia Technologies); Image Theory (Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Communication Management); Applied Scientific Research Methodologies; Editing and Montage (Master’s degree in Information, Communication and Multimedia Technologies); and Image Theories II; Cinematic Art; Video Creation Project; Final Project; and Internship (Bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Art)