Originally a copyright lawyer, over the past 20 years Marta Vaz de Sousa has developed and produced cinema and TV projects, all the way from script development to distribution. With a focus in business development, film production and distribution, she is currently academically engaged at Universidade Lusófona, teaching film production at Kino Eyes (European Film Masters) and film and TV production at B.A. (Film, Video and Multimedia Communication). She is carrying out research at Media Arts and Communication PhD (School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies) and at FilmEU (European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts) and as member of CICANT (Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies).