Born in Portugal, 2005, I was raised in a family truly in love with the arts. From a young age, my parents made sure that I began to learn about music, theatre, the plastic arts, literature; but ultimately what caught my eye was Cinema.​

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My parents would sit in the living room and let me watch whatever film they were watching; they would take me to the cinema to watch all the animation films that were on, and over time it became tradition. At my grandparents' house, we'd watch Monty Python, Fawlty Towers or 'Allo 'Allo!, as well as Chaplin and my grandma's favourite soap operas. I grew to love the power of cinema, out of pure fascination for what I was shown.

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Then, probably in 2015, my mom showed me Cinema Paradiso and something clicked. Cinema Paradiso is one of those films with its own soul; it communicated with me almost on a spiritual level, the beauty of that relationship, the rawness of those human connections. I didn't think much of it at the time, simply felt it.

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And in 2018, my grandfather died. He was always my role model, probably because he was my dad's role model as well. My grandpa was the one most responsible for my values, for the great person he was, and for the good person he forced me to become. I became more emotional, more fragile, I was entering teenagehood, becoming a hormone-controlled sample of a man, and suddenly I had to deal with the loss of my role model and my best friend. One thing led to another and I began searching for ways to deal with what I was feeling; the emptiness left by the departure of a loved one.

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I started watching more movies, I started writing my own little stories and watching a lot of stand-up comedy. Stand-up comedy has an extraordinary raw power of stripping someone of all their walls, exposing the rawness of their words, "and now make us laugh". I grew fascinated of how comedians like Daniel Sloss and Bo Burnham, and other 20 or 30 Portuguese comedians, talked about their own traumas and dilemmas. Stand-up comedians led me to webseries, perhaps the most noble/premium format in Portuguese comedy, and that's how I found my passion for Screenwriting.

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I wanted to write those shows, I wanted to blur those lines between pain and comedy, I wanted to write.

But I had no idea how.

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In 2023, I moved to London and got into film school, with the goal of learning technical skills that could allow me to write my stories in the format that I found most incredible - the screenplay.

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Now, I spend my time writing features and TV Pilot screenplays that deal with the bittersweat relationship we have with the passage of time, with youth, with death and family. However, these themes don't restrict me in genre; I love to write comedy-dramas as much as I love to write thrillers, because I believe there is comedy and drama everywhere, the relief is in ourselves.

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