Alexandra Guimarães (b. 1999, V. N. Famalicão) is a film director, graduated from ESAP in 2020. She is currently finalizing her first feature-length documentary, “The City and the Maps”, co-directed with Gonçalo L. Almeida, which won the Working Class Heroes grant from Porto/Post/Doc and will premiere at the end of 2026. She also co-directed the short films “Musgo” (2021), premiered at Curtas Vila do Conde, and “Cristóval-Pontebarxas” (2022), produced during an artistic residency at MDOC. In her recent artistic work, she combines documentary with video essay, questioning the relationships between image, technology and territory. Currently, she is also a guest assistant professor at ESAP, where she coordinates the Postgraduate Program in Film Production.

filmography
the city and the maps (2026)
cristóval - pontebarxas (2022)
musgo (2021)

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