Renata Ferraz holds a PhD in Arts (CAPES International 4 years grant nº 000795/2014-03) from the University of Lisbon. She is a master in Multimedia-Audiovisual Art (FBAUL) and has a degree in Performing Arts (Instituto de Artes-UNESP). She worked simultaneously and continuously as a teacher and actress for 15 years. Very early in her career, she got two positions as Adjunct Teacher, working in public primary and secondary school. In polytechnics she taught Acting, Staging, History of Theater. She worked as theater advisor in Ademar Guerra Project (around 70 students of decentralised São Paulo cities) and as an artistic-pedagogical coordinator in Nucleo Vocacional (12 teachers team, 650 students), with a high cultural impact and social engagement in peripheral areas in São Paulo. In 2009, she starting moving to cinema and research fields, including the creation of video art productions, the co-founding and coordinating of the international multimedia collective Corrosive (BR)| Roundabout (PT), with artists from Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, UK and Spain. She started an art-based research during the Master degree. Her PhD project, completed in December 2018, highlights possibilities of shared creation in cinema. As additional outcomes, she made EVO and Ádito, two short films with the UK based visual artist Rubiane Maia. They also explored shared creation and feminine social issues. Since the beginning of her PhD program, she have reinforced the international scope of her work, including collaborations with C4AA (USA), integrating the research group Artistic Action: Sex worker Rights in Dublin, presentations of academic work in UK, Brazil and at international conferences in Portugal, screenings and panel discussion of her films in international cinema festivals in in Portugal, Brazil, UK, France, USA, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina and Mexico. and a showcase at Cerveira International Art Biennial. She has also been invited to lead lectures as an expert in art based research and to present the results of her scientific-artistic work. Since 2019, she has been part of DGArtes Evaluation Committee (Performing Arts and Interdisciplinary Projects). In 2020, she was awarded a grant by the Electric Central Residence Programme. This grant supported a digital residency project, in co-creation with Flavio Almeida, (artist-Labcom scholar), resulting in a film and a publication. She has developed her research at Labcom - Communication and Arts (UBI) and CIEBA (FBAUL) in cinema, multimedia and investigation in arts since 2016. She coordinated the post-production of Rua dos Anjos with research funding from CAPES and post production funding from ICA (Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisua). Rua dos Anjos premiere will be hold in 2022, at Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest and one of most important avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America.