Open to Industry badge holders and students.
What if transforming an everyday object could change the world around it? In this workshop with Carolina Dias and Repensar, an exercise in imagination becomes a starting point for exploring the relationship between cinema, creativity and sustainability.
Participants begin with something familiar, modify it and follow the consequences of that change. What behaviours emerge? How do relationships, spaces and habits shift? What other conditions would need to change for this object to exist?
Moving between reality and imagination, the workshop considers cinema as a way to explore possibilities and examine their social and environmental implications.
With Carolina Dias
A creative and executive producer, director and screenwriter, Carolina Dias has worked in film and audiovisual production for 25 years. She founded Refinaria Filmes in 2002 and has produced fiction and documentary features by filmmakers including Sérgio Tréfaut, António Ferreira, José Barahona and Renata Ferraz. She was part of the writing team of the children’s television series Detetives do Prédio Azul for seven years. She is a PhD candidate in Sustainability Sciences at the University of Lisbon, researching visual narratives about sustainability.
Repensar
Founded in 2023, Repensar is a non-profit association dedicated to integrating social, economic and environmental sustainability into film and audiovisual production in Portugal. Bringing together certified green consultants, it provides consultancy, training and awareness-raising activities, working with crews and organisations to transform practices and encourage new narratives.
