Bio: Inês Pedrosa e Melo is a documentary filmmaker and editor from Lisbon, Portugal, currently living in San Francisco. Coming from a background in film and media studies, as well as anthropology, she strives for a nonfiction media practice that is heavily rooted in engaging with archival and documentary materials, as well as in thoughtful collaboration with the people whose stories she strives to give a platform to. She hopes to make films that make us question our relationship with history and images, and with our historical and societal legacies and traumas. Inês’s films have tackled themes such as marginal cultural practices and resistance/counterculture symbols; people’s relationship with mortality; physical/psychological resilience; and poetic examinations of visual culture. Her documentary shorts have been showcased in festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America. Most recently, her short documentary/film essay Home, Revised was awarded the Fernando Lopes Award for Best Portuguese First Film at Doclisboa 2022. She is currently working on a short documentary hybrid film about abortion travel in America. Inês has an MA in Visual Anthropology from NOVA FCSH (2022) and is a graduate of Stanford University’s Documentary Film & Video Production MFA program (2019). She is a 2022-2023 SFFILM FilmHouse filmmaker resident.