Ilda Teresa de Castro is an artist, a curator and a researcher on art&ecology, ecomedia and ecocinema. PhD in Communication Sciences/Cinema and Television at Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), Lisbon (2012) with the thesis I, Animal – the filmic order in ecocritical awareness and the paradigm shift, and Postdoctoral researcher at CineLab/IfilNova, with the project Landscapes and Changes - Movements (2019). Actually she is an integrated member at ICNova, NOVA Institute of Communication, Lisbon. Graduated in Cinema Studies at Lisbon Theater and Film School (ESTC - 1991) and in Art Experts at School of Decorative Arts, Foundation Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva, Lisbon (ESAD - FRESSS - 1994). Author of several essays as well as 5 books, Ecofeminismos e o ecofeminismo da bruxa - cinema e ecologia, Ilda Teresa Castro & Asoka Miau House Productions, 2023; Eu Animal - argumentos para um novo paradigma – cinema e ecologia, Ilda Teresa Castro & Zéfiro, col. Nova Águia, 2015; and the Oral History trilogy on Portuguese Cinema: Animação Portuguesa conversas com ... (2004); Cineastas Portuguesas 1874-1956 conversas com ... (2001); Curtas Metragens Portuguesas conversas com ... (1999). A multidisciplinary artist, her most recent work assumes a crossroad between art and ecology, focusing on the critical environmental and animal domain. She combines different artistic practices: drawing and visual arts, photography, web design, music and film. As a ecovideo artist, she has had his works screened in ecofestivals and ecoconferences in Amazonia, Goa, Mexico City, Porto, Lisboa, Colares, Vinhais, Évora. Her eco-critical installations and ecoart pieces, namely the series Herbal-Reliquaries, Oxygenarious, Seed Silos and Earth Sculptures where exhibited at Mosteiro de Santa Clara, Museu Geológico de Lisboa, Museu das Marionetas Porto, Teatro Rivoli, Centro Cultural Vinhais, Flores do Cabo, Évora. As a musician she is the co-author (libretto) of the Eco-Ópera´s Multimedia, Descartes Never Saw a Monkey (2017) where she also plays electronics and she is the co-author (libretto) and co-director of the filmed Eco-Ópera Virino Kaj Naturo# exhibited in Teatro São Luiz (2023) and in Festival Silvestre (2024), Lisboa. She plays on Telectu and The Banksy´s. Also, she is co-director of the film Sonosfera Telectu, awarded an Honorable Mention in Indie Music at the Indie Lisboa Film Festival (2022). She´s the founder and editor of the international online bilingual ecocritic platform and journal “animalia vegetalia mineralia”.