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Filipa Burmester

Animation is my passion. Working with and for people is what moves me. My purpose in life? Teach the best of me and learn the best of everyone. Oh, and also, I’m obsessed with unicorns.

Biography

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue the magic world of animation. Being able to give life to unanimated, unimaginable and nonexistent characters fascinates me. Nothing is impossible in animation, even unicorns and dragons can exist. In my bachelor degree I had the opportunity to experiment with many forms of art, but the love for animation only increased. While I was studying, I started in the animated feature film "Fátima and the Secret Treasure" which was being animated by Platige Image. Everything was fascinating, so I decided to deepen my knowledge and moved to Lisbon to take my Master Degree in Arts of Animation. I there got the chance to meet the wonderful José Miguel Ribeiro, who then invited me to manage the production of his animated feature film "Nayola". Everyday feels like a dream and it has been the best experience of my life so far. I get the chance to work beside José Miguel everyday, see his amazing piece of art come to life and be part of it. This film is a co-production between 5 studions - Praça Filmes (Portugal), S.O.I.L (Belgium), JPL Films (France), Il Luster (Netherlands) and Luna Blue Films (Belgium). I have built production breakdowns and schedules for every team, do a daily check up on the status of each shot and ensure the communication between teams and studios. Also, there is a lot of space for creative opinions and discussions which make me grow and I get to learn on a daily basis. With this, producing has been growing on me and I have really found a passion in working with our amazing teams and managing this production. I'm very much looking forward to the next opportunity, to learn a more and more and to work on the production of animated films.

Skills

Roles

  • Basic
  • Basic

Work Experience

2020 – 2022

Production Manager

Praça Filmes (Montemor-O-Novo)

I worked as a production manager at the animated feature film "Nayola." There was also room for creative opinions and producing. I also had to manage the communication between the 5 co-producers.

2016 – 2018

Art Director

Imaginew (Porto)

Worked as an art director in the animated feature film "Fátima and the Secret Treasure", making the bridge between our office in Oporto and the animated studio Platige Image.

Education

2018 – 2021

Masters

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Arts of Animation

A master degree where I had the opportunity to learn all types of animation and how to do them. Also had the opportunity to create 3 short films of my own.

2013 – 2016

Bachelor

Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo

Communication Technologies and Multimedia

3 years of a bachelor degree where I learned the basics of all technologies for communication, from photography, to video, to animating. For the final project I did a 3D animated short film.