Manager of Cinemateca Portuguesa

José Manuel Costa, manager of Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museum of Cinema and guest professor at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of U.N.L. In Cinemateca, where he started working in 1975, José has had several functions, namely being responsible for the project and the installation of the Arquivo Nacional das Imagens em Movimento (Nacional Archive of Moving Images). Internationally, Pierre was a member of Comité Directivo da FIAF and President of Comité Directivo da ACE (Association of European Film Libraries). José has been a regular author on texts about history, cinema and documentary history, he was the writer and co-writer of monographs about D.W.Griffith, Robert Flaherty, Joris Ivens, Frederick Wiseman, Chinese Cinema, Indian Cinema, amongst others.