Storyteller by nature, Rita’s path has always been connected to writing, theatre, video, film, and photography. She strives to use a wide range of different mediums to express her true passion: stories. She is interested in creating pieces with absurd humour that float between reality and fiction.

Her documentary THE FOREIGNERS premiered in Sweden and went on to win the 1st award at the Alto Minho Storytelling Competition after traveling to several film festivals. Her most recent narrative work THE COOP premiered at the Lincoln Film Center in New York as part of the NY Portuguese Short-Film Festival and has been screened on 4 continents.

In 2015, she won the 1st Portuguese American Postgraduate summer scholarship. Four years later, Rita won a Fulbright scholarship to complete her Master’s degree in Directing at the College of Motion Picture Arts in the United States of America, where she also taught screenwriting.

Rita was a board member of AO Norte - Association of Audiovisual Production and Animation for 2 years and won the video competition of the Future Film Festival from the British Film Institute.

She was selected as one of the New Faces of the Creative Industries by the H Club in London, and selected to participate in the Storytelling Masterclass at the Google headquarters, leading her work to be featured on Nowness.

She also works as a freelance commercial editor and as an assistant director on studio productions, such as House of the Dragon, A Town Called Malice, Fast & Furious X, among others.