Madalena Miranda is a filmmaker and researcher, lives and works in Lisbon. At the moment she is a researcher at ICNOVA at the Culture, Mediation and the Arts cluster and is Invited Professor at Nova University of Lisbon (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences). She holds a PhD in Digital Media, specialized in Audiovisual and Interactive Content Creation, from Nova University, a CoLab Program with the University of Porto and the University of Texas, Austin. Her doctoral practice-based research, "Protest Images, Collective Portraits" (2020) outcomes include an interactive platform prototype to explore participatory models of archival and montage cinema from online protest images of social movements of the digital age. She was awarded with a full doctoral fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Recently she is involved with different research projects, with a highlight to AfricanEuropeanNarratives, an Europe for Citizens funded project, practicing participatory media literacy workshops and with a documentary film as output. She graduated in Communication Sciences in Nova University of Lisbon, specialized in Cinema and Television (1998) and has a Masters in Anthropology by ISCTE -University Institute of Lisbon, in Multiculturalism and Identities, where she also directed a documentary - "Class Diary" (2009) as a research output. She studied Documentary Direction with Les Ateliers Varan (2004), with a scholarship of the Gulbenkian Foundation Creativity Program. She has directed several films, mostly documentary. Some of her films were screened and awarded in different film festivals, among them, Les Écrans Documentaires, IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Texas Film Festival or Oberhausen Film Festival. She is a member of APORDOC- Portuguese Documentary Association where she co-coordinated and programmed Panorama - a Portuguese Documentary ShowCase (2006-2013). Besides Cinema and the Visual in different forms, her research interests also delve into Critical Media, Technology and Media Theory and EcoMedia Studies.