Patrícia Nogueira (Porto, Portugal) is a Professor of Film at the University of Beira Interior, where she directs the MA in Film and vice-coordinator of the iArtes Research Center. She has taught as a visiting professor at several universities, including the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School, the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media, completed under the UT Austin-Portugal international program, with a specialization in Audiovisual and Interactive Content Creation, and a MA in Documentary Film and Photography. During 2015, she was in residency at the National Film Board of Canada, and in 2016, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin.
Nogueira began her career in the film industry in 2004, working on the production of narrative feature films and collaborating with production companies such as Marginal Filmes (Lisbon, Portugal), Cinemate (Lisbon, Portugal), and Titanio Films (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). In 2010, she shifted her focus to documentary filmmaking, enrolling in a master’s program in Documentary Film and Photography. Two years later, she premiered her debut feature documentary, 3 Hours to Love, which explores intimate visits in a women’s prison facility. The film was selected and awarded at several festivals in Portugal and internationally. Alongside directing her own documentary projects, she collaborates with other directors in both fiction and documentary genres.
Nogueira has served as a jury member at numerous film festivals worldwide, as well as for ICA, the Portuguese Film Fund. She's also an Expert for the Creative Europe Media programme of the European Commission. 2013-2025 she co-directed the International Documentary Film Festival MDOC, and since 2024 she is part of the Steering Committee of NECS - the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. Her research interests include all forms of documentary filmmaking—such as auteur, experimental, interactive, and expanded—along with Feminist Film Theories, Archives and Digital Culture.
Nogueira began her career in the film industry in 2004, working on the production of narrative feature films and collaborating with production companies such as Marginal Filmes (Lisbon, Portugal), Cinemate (Lisbon, Portugal), and Titanio Films (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). In 2010, she shifted her focus to documentary filmmaking, enrolling in a master’s program in Documentary Film and Photography. Two years later, she premiered her debut feature documentary, 3 Hours to Love, which explores intimate visits in a women’s prison facility. The film was selected and awarded at several festivals in Portugal and internationally. Alongside directing her own documentary projects, she collaborates with other directors in both fiction and documentary genres.
Nogueira has served as a jury member at numerous film festivals worldwide, as well as for ICA, the Portuguese Film Fund. She's also an Expert for the Creative Europe Media programme of the European Commission. 2013-2025 she co-directed the International Documentary Film Festival MDOC, and since 2024 she is part of the Steering Committee of NECS - the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies. Her research interests include all forms of documentary filmmaking—such as auteur, experimental, interactive, and expanded—along with Feminist Film Theories, Archives and Digital Culture.
