Soraia Ferreira

Is currently taking her PhD in Digital Media, which is a joint program between the University of Porto and the New University of Lisbon with the support of the University of Austin in Texas. She holds a Cinema Studies Masters from Lusófona University in Lisbon and a Business Administration Degree from the Catholic Portuguese University in Porto. She has also studied Directing and Producing of Movies and Television at the New York Film Academy in New York and Los Angeles respectively; Film Business at the Media Business School in Spain and in 2010 was selected to the Berlinale Talent Campus, a creative academy and networking platform for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world that takes place during the Berlin Film Festival.
 
Soraia started her career in LA as the personal assistant to the president of the distribution arm of the prestigious independent production and distribution company Hyde Park International, where she assisted in the sales of movies such as “Dreamer” with Dakota Fanning that premiered reaching number two in the American box office, “Premonition” with Sandra Bullock and “Shopgirl” starring Claire Danes and Steve Martin.
 
In 2005, she founded the production company Yellow Pictures and later on, the production company Yellow Films, where she is the responsible for the management of both operational units. Between 2005 and 2009, she produced the feature “Star Crossed” that was released in the Portuguese market on the 4th of June 2009 and also produced and directed the making of and the promotional clips of this feature. 
Independently she has produced since 2003 numerous narrative shorts and documentaries in NY, LA, Porto and Lisbon.
 
Since 2009, Soraia has been lecturing at film festivals and schools namely at the Arouca Film Festival, UFrame, FEST and at the Porto Polytechnic. She currently also collaborates with Portuguese Premiere Magazine.
 
Soraia is presently teaching at the Advanced Digital Media program at the Porto University a joint program with the University of Austin, Texas.

July 2011

Angelino Ferreira

After a long trajectory as stock exchange and assets manager in the global capital markets Angelino Ferreira took in 1995 the lead in the managerial transformation of the Futebol Clube do Porto group.
Most recently, he signed responsible for the two most important projects of the club: the Construction of the Dragon Stadium and the Practicing Center PortoGaia.

July 2011