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Pedro Serrazina is an award winning director, senior lecturer and animation researcher. His first short, The Tale about the Cat and the Moon, premiered internationally at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1996. Since then his work has expanded from short films to international site-specific installations, music videos, workshops and academic projects. Serrazina is interested in the interconnections between architecture, public space and animation. He completed his MA degree at the Royal College of Art, London (with a grant from Fund. Gulbenkian), and a practice-based PhD (with a grant from FCT), on “The creation and use of animated space as tool to reflect on social space”, at Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon. At Univ. Lusófona he is a senior lecturer in the BA and MA animation courses. His projects and work have been exhibited internationally (Tunisia, São Paulo, USA, Montreal, Lisbon...), a recent highlight being a UN commission to work with Tunisian communities on the theme of local empowerment. He is co-organizer of Ecstatic Truth, an annual symposium dedicated to the interconnections between animation and documentary practice. A member of the Society for Animation Studies, Serrazina hosted the annual SAS 2019 conference in Lisbon and is currently preparing his next short documentary film, What remains of us. In his spare times he nurtures his passion for vinyl and graphic novels.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Serrazina

Citation names

  • Serrazina, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9B11-3DF3-6704
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7707-8418

Email addresses

  • pedroserrazina@ulusofona.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Universidade Lusófona. Campo Grande, 376, 1200-293, LISBOA, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015
Concluded
 Ciências da Comunicação (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
"Animated Space: Thought on Reclaiming the Territory. The construction and use of Hand-drawn animated space as a tool to perceive indivual, social and cultural ownership." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com distinção e louvor
2005/02/02
Concluded
 Animation Studies (Postgraduate Certificate)
University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, United Kingdom
"The Perception and Creation of Space as Narrative Tool in Animation Short Films" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 pass
1998
Concluded
 Animation (Master)
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
"Those who Dream Without End - An Approach to the world of the Brothers Quay" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 pass
1992 - 1996
Attended
 Curso de formação em cinema de animação (câmara 35mm, animação, argumento e edição) (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in cinema de animação
Filmógrafo, estúdio de animação, Portugal
1995 - 1995
Concluded
 Lokomotive, international itinerant animation workshop (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Netherlands

Animation Workshop, Denmark

Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague - FAMU, Czech Republic
1989 - 1992
Attended
 Arquitectura (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, Portugal
2010/10/01 - 2019/08/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Assistant (University Teacher) Centro de Investigação em Informação Comunicação e Cultura Digital, Portugal
1998/10/01 - 2012/07/02 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
2004/10/01 - 2006/07/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Leeds Beckett University - Headingley Campus, United Kingdom
2003/10/01 - 2004/07/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, United Kingdom
1999/10/01 - 2004/07/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) London College of Communication, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2006/10/01 - 2010/07/31 Director do curso de licenciatura em Animation Arts BA (Hons), na UCA, Maidstone, Inglaterra. Escrita do documento original do curso. UCA Maidstone, Oakwood Park Maidstone Kent ME16 8AG, United Kingdom
2002/10/01 - 2006/07/31 Professor Auxiliar (“Visiting Lecturer and tutor”) da componente prática e teórica da licenciatura em Animation Arts, UCCA (actual UCA) Maidstone; UCA Maidstone, Oakwood Park Maidstone Kent ME16 8AG, United Kingdom
1998/09/01 - 1999/06 Assistente de investigação no curso de Mestrado do Royal College of Art Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
1992/10/01 - 1993/07/31 Professor de Educação Visual e Tecnológica, Escola Secundária de são Pedro da Cova Esc. Sec. de S. Pedro da Cova com 3º Ciclo do Ens. Básico, Portugal
Projects

Other

Designation Funders
2019/10 - 2019/11 “Animar o espaço, descobrir a cidade”, coordenação de projeto educativo para festival Porto/Post/Doc (c/ Univ de Arquitectura do Porto)
n/a
Principal investigator
festival porto/post/doc, Portugal
Concluded
2018/10 - 2018/11 “Animar o espaço, descobrir a cidade” - Coordenação de projeto educativo para festival Porto/Post/Doc (c/ Escola Artística Árvore, Porto)
n/a
festival porto/post/doc, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Serrazina, Pedro. Pequenas Estórias Sem Importância. Porto, Portugal: FCD - Teatro do Campo Alegre. 2006.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Serrazina, Pedro. "Shadows of Ourselves - site-specific sand animation installation for Sephardi Museum". In Encyclopedia of Animation Studies, Vol.2. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2025.
    Under revision
  2. Serrazina, Pedro. "Excavating the Frame: The Animated Still Image of Susana de Sousa Dias". In 21st Century Animation: Innovation, Aesthetics, Approaches, edited by Neykova, R.; Moyes, P.; El_Koury. 2024.
    In press
  3. Serrazina, Pedro. "Paisagens que desaparecem. Traços socioculturais na obra de David Doutel e Vasco Sá". In Olhares sobre a Animação Portuguesa: Vol. 01 – David Doutel e Vasco Sá. Portugal: CINANIMA, 2024.
    In press
  4. Serrazina, Pedro. "Animação, espaço público e gentrificação - a imagem animada como forma de resistência". In Combart, Arte, Artivismo e cidadania; utopias e futuros imaginados, edited by Guerra, Paula, 116-135. Porto, Portugal: Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras, 2023.
    Published
  5. Serrazina, Pedro. "Those Who Dream Without End". In Stephen and Timothy Quay. Bergamo, Italy: Bergamo Film Meeting, 2000.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Serrazina, Pedro; Viveiros, Paulo. The Poetic Landscapes of Portuguese Animation. United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Serrazina, Pedro; Viveiros, Paulo; Cordas, Magda; Veloso, Luísa. Olhares sobre a Animação Portuguesa: Vol. 01 - David Doutel e Vasco Sá. Portugal: CINANIMA. 2024.
    In press • Editor
Journal article
  1. Serrazina, Pedro. "Animation, Gentrification and Social Experience". Animation Studies Journal 16 (2021): https://journal.animationstudies.org/pedro-serrazina-animation-gentrification-and-social-experience/.
    Published
  2. Serrazina, Pedro. "Narrative Space: From Ozu to Paul Driessen and Raimund Krumme". SAS Animation Studies Journal 13 (2018): https://journal.animationstudies.org/pedro-serrazina-narrative-space-from-ozu-to-paul-driessen-and-raimund-krumme/.
    Published
  3. Serrazina, Pedro. "Spatial Constructions: a practitioner’s view of animated space". Animation Studies Journal 11 (2016): https://journal.animationstudies.org/pedro-serrazina-spatial-constructions-a-practitioners-view-of-animated-space/.
  4. Serrazina, Pedro. "Notes towards the use of a documentary approach in the teaching of animation". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 1 1 (2016): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/article/view/5437.
    Published
  5. Serrazina, Pedro. "Transcending the surface: the animated line between Benjamin, Eisenstein and early animation". Animation Practice, Process and Production 3 1-2 (2013): 75-92. https://www.intellectbooks.com/transcending-the-surface-the-animated-line-between-benjamin-eisenstein-and-early-animation.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Hosea; Serrazina, Pedro; Stehlikova; Natalie Woolf PhD(RCA). "Ecstatic Truth VII – Decolonizing Animation". Animation Practice, Process & Production (2024):
    Under revision • Coeditor
  2. Hosea, B.; Stehlikova, T. "Ecstatic Truth, the age of the absurd - documentary animation practices that reimagine our world.". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 6 3 (2021): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/view/810.
    Published • Coeditor
  3. Serrazina, Pedro; Woolf, Natalie. "Animated Space: engaged animation for the space(s) we live in". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 6 2 (2021): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/view/804.
    Published • Editor
  4. Hosea, B.; Stehlikova, T. "Truth of Matter: Process and perception in expanded animation practice". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 4 2 (2019): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/view/746.
    Published • Coeditor

Artistic / Performance

Video recording
  1. Serrazina, Pedro; Pedro Serrazina (Director). 2022. "Who Can Resist?" (curta metragem, 4 mins, animação 2D digital, realizador). Vídeo animado para o tema de Rodrigo Leão.
  2. Serrazina, Pedro; Pedro Serrazina (Director). 2021. Lote B (curta metragem, 4 mins, animação 2D digital, realizador). Vídeo animado para o tema de António Zambujo).
  3. Serrazina, Pedro; Filmes da Praça, Sardinha em lata, Urrebuk (Producer); Pedro Serrazina (Director). 2010. Os Olhos do Farol (curta metragem, 15', técnica mista, realizador). Agência da Curta Metragem.
  4. Serrazina, Pedro; Filmógrafo (Producer); Pedro Serrazina (Director). 1995. Estória do Gato e da Lua (curta metragem, 5', desenho animado). Agência da Curta Metragem.

Other

Other output
  1. Community Heroes - Sara Ali (animação documental, 4:56mins, animação digital, realizador, editor). 3ª curta metragem produzida para a campanha Community Heroes, parte do projeto Europeu Rethink contra a discriminação.. 2020. Serrazina, Pedro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A6OtGSGs5Q.
  2. Community Heroes - Muhammad Munir (animação documental, 4:17mins, animação de recortes, realizador, animador, editor). 2ª curta metragem produzida para a campanha Community Heroes, parte do projeto Europeu Rethink contra a discriminação.. 2020. Serrazina, Pedro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-0SpqZhfcE&app=desktop.
  3. Community Heroes - Mamadou Baldé (animação documental, 2:39mins, 2D digital , realizador, editor). 1ª curta metragem produzida para a campanha Community Heroes, parte do projeto Europeu Rethink contra a discriminação.. 2020. Serrazina, Pedro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CaByTwx2bU.
  4. Crias, Lince Ibérico (ep. de série, 1:30mins, animação 2d digital, realizador). Episódio para a série Crias, produção Videolotion, RTP2.. 2019. Serrazina, Pedro. https://www.rtp.pt/play/zigzag/p6485/e442705/crias.
  5. É Preciso que Eu Diminua (curta metragem, 4 mins, animação 2D digital, realizador, animador). Vídeo animado para o tema de Samuel Uria. Prémio SPA Vasco Granja, Best Portuguese short film/Melhor curta de animação Portuguesa, Monstra 2017, Lisboa.. 2016. Serrazina, Pedro. https://vimeo.com/187800539.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2014/06 Spatial constructions: A practitioner’s view of animated space Society for Animation Studies annual conference
Sheridan College (Toronto, Canada)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/12 - 2020/12 Co-organizer and member of scientific committee of the 5th edition of Ecstatic Truth: The Age of the Absurd, in collaboration with Under the Radar, Vienna, Austria. (2020/12 - 2020/12)
Symposium
2019/06 - 2019/06 President of the scientific committee and host of the 31st annual conference of the Society for Animation Studies, Lisbon, June 2019. (2019/06 - 2019/06)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2019/06 - 2019/06 Co-organizer and member of scientific committee of the 4th edition of Ecstatic Truth: Truth of Matter: process and perception in expanded animation practice. Westminster University, London. (2019/06 - 2019/06)
Symposium (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2018/06 - 2018/06 Co-organizer of the 3rd edition of Ecstatic Truth: Making Sense, between Fantasy and Fact. Univ. Lusófona, Lisbon. (2018/06 - 2018/06)
Seminar
2016/04 - 2016/04 “LusofonAnima, o Cinema de Animação em Discussão”, co-organizador de simpósio internacional (keynote speaker: Joan Ashworth, directora do curso de animação do RCA, Londres). (2016/04 - 2016/04)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2009/04/07 - 2009/04/07 Organização do simpósio AniMaidstone, dedicado a questões de identidade cultural, animação e documentário. Professor Paul Wells (Keynote). Kim Hopkins (realizadora, BBC World), Simon Robson (realizador, Nexus films), Arnoud Rijken (produtor, Holanda), street-artist A. Dee (UK), e Álvaro Barbosa (coordenador do curso de Som e Imagem da Univ. Catolica do Porto). A conferência foi complementada com a produção de cinco curtas de animação documental realizados por alunos do curso de animação, UCA Maidstone (2009/04/07 - 2009/04/07)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/11/07 - 2020/11/07 Apresentação e debate sobre o filme Olhos do Farol (em sessão dupla com O Farol de Robert Eggers) no museu Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo (Mar Film Festival).
2020/11 - 2020/11 Exibição dos filmes Mamadou Baldé e Muhammad Munir na competição do Cinanima, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Animação, Espinho, Portugal. Cinanima
2020/11 - 2020/11 Exibição dos filmes Estória do Gato e da Lua e Olhos do Farol no Festival Anilogue, Budapest, Hungria.
2020/05/04 - 2020/05/04 Conversa-performance Fora de Campo, com o fotógrafo André Cepeda, integrada no evento das Inaugurações Simultâneas, produção Ágora, Cultura e Desporto do Porto, com curadoria porto/post/doc
Other
 Fora de Campo
2019/10/18 - 2019/10/18 Curadoria de sessão com “carta branca” e masterclass, a convite do festival Close-Up, Observatório de Cinema, na casa das Artes de Famalicão

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2020/02/07 Arguente no júri da Prova de Aptidão Profissional (PAP) dos alunos finalistas do Curso Técnico Animação 2D/3D da Escola Árvore
(Thesis) Arguer
 alunos finalistas do Curso Técnico Animação 2D/3D da Escola Árvore (Other)
2019/12/05 Arguente no júri da tese de doutoramento em Design (IADE) da candidata Cátia Alexandra dos Santos Peres
(Thesis) Arguer
 Cátia Alexandra dos Santos Peres (PhD)
Instituto de Arte Design e Empresa Universitário Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2016 - 2024 Co-diretor e membro do comité cientifico do simpósio Ecstatic Truth dedicado à interrelação das práticas da animação e do cinema documental
Director
 Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

University for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2018/06 - 2018/06 “Animating Space – Engaging Place” animation and installation workshop, co-faculty with professor and artist Rose Bond at Concordia University, Montreal. (Bachelor) Concordia University, Canada
2016/09/01 - 2016/09/03 “Cidade Sonhada”, animation workshop coordination, mixing drawn animation and video, under the theme of the animated city as an expression of identity. Produced by invitation of the Arte Institute, for the 27th Short Film Festival of São Paulo (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Arte Institute & Festival Int. de curtas metragens de São Paulo, Brazil
2015/07 - 2015/07 “Boundary Crossings, an institute in contemporary animated arts”: Co-faculty with professor and artist Rose Bond; “Boundary Crossings is a two-week intensive institute open to working professionals, graduate and upper-level undergraduate students interested in a hands-on exploration of animated installation as a medium and site for investigation of moving image interdisciplinary practice”. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA Pacific Northwest College of Art, United States

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020/10 - 2020/12 External reviewer in the IRU Calibration Process: benchmarking the course entitled Industry Research (3109GFS) for Griffith University through the IRU Academic Calibration Process. Griffith University, Australia

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2019/01 - 2019/04 International Journal of Film and Media Arts Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019): Truth of Matter: Process and perception in expanded animation practice; Universidade Lusófona

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/11 - 2020/11 Jury member. 3 in1 Film Fest, Almeirim, Portugal.
2020/09 - 2020/09 International jury member. Animasyros 13: International Animation Film Festival & Agora, Syros, Greece.
2018/11 - 2018/11 Presidência do júri internacional da 42a edição do Cinanima 2018, Festival internacional de animação de Espinho
Distinctions

Award

2017 Melhor Curta Portuguesa de Animação, Prémio SPAUTORES / Vasco Granja, Festival Int. de Animação Monstra 2017: "É preciso que eu diminua"
SPA Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, Portugal
2011 Melhor Curta de animação, Curtas Sadinas: Os Olhos do Farol
2011 Melhor curta de Junho 2011, Shortcutz Lisboa: Os Olhos do Farol
2011 Melhor animação do ano 2011, Shortcutz Portugal: "Os Olhos do Farol"
2011 Menção especial do Júri, Festival Ibérico de Cine, Badajoz: Os Olhos do Farol
2011 Melhor Curta Metragem 2011, Cineport, festival de cinema, João Pessoa, Brasil: Os Olhos do Farol
2011 Best Animation, 2011, Lucas Animation Film Festival , Frankfurt: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Melhor curta metragem votada pelo publico Dezembro 2010, Canal Q: Estória do Gato e da Lua
2010 Menção Honrosa, Animadrid 2010: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Menção Honrosa, Cinanima, festival internacional de cinema de animação: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Menção Honrosa, Filminho, Festival Galego-Português de Cinema: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Menção Honrosa, Festival de Avanca: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Best Portuguese short film, FIKE; Évora Film Festival: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Best animation, Faial Film Festival: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Prémio “Cidade de Ovar”, Ovarvídeo: Os Olhos do Farol
2010 Melhor filme do mês de Dezembro 2010, Shortcutz Porto: Os Olhos do Farol
1998 Diploma for international animation, Krok Animation Festival: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1997 Honour Mention, Clermont Ferrand Int. Short Film Festival’97: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1997 1st prize, Animation, Chile International Film Festival'97: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1997 1st prize, Animation, South Korea International Film Festival: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1997 3rd prize in the Animation Competition, Dresden Animation Film Festival: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1997 3rd prize in Animation, Krok Animation Festival, Ukraine: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1997 Best Animation short, Algarve International Film Festival: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1996 Golden Spike, Valladolid’96 International Film Festival, Spain: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1996 TVE Prize, Valladolid’96 International Film Festival, Spain: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1996 Best Animation short film, Carrousel Internatinal du Film, Rimousky’96, Canada: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1996 Honour Mention, Ottawa International Animation Festival: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1996 Festival de Huy’96, Belgium: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1996 Glauber Rocha prize Bahia int. Film festival: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1995 Best International 1st film, Cinanima 95, Portugal: Estória do Gato e da Lua
1995 Best young Portuguese director prize, Cinanima 95, Portugal: Estória do Gato e da Lua

Other distinction

2020 Os Olhos do Farol incluído no Plano Nacional de Cinema
2017 "Estória do Gato e da lua" incluído no Plano Nacional de Cinema