Pocas Pascoal

In 1998, she directed her first short fiction film in India "For us" and two documentaries: Childhood Memories (2000) and There is always somebody who loves you (2004). She also directed and the short film Tomorrow will be different (2008). In 2011 she directed her first feature film Over here everything is fine, a story based on her exile from Portugal. This film received the Jury Award for Best Narrative at the Los Angeles Film Independent Festival in 2012. The film has also been produced under the name Alda and Maria which was released in January 2015. Her work has been featured in over 20 festivals worldwide since she began her career as a film maker.

Maria Esperança "Pocas" Pascoal, was born on 11 November 1963 in Luanda, Angola, where she grew up until the age of 16 before leaving the civil war to Lisbon, Portugal with her sister. Two years later, she returned to Angola and became the first camerawomen for television in Luanda. In France, Pascoal studied at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais (CLCF) and graduated in film editing. In 2002, she joined a group of artists of the Cité internationale des arts and took part in several contemporary arts exhibitions. Currently Pascoal lives between Paris and Lisbon, where she is working on her next feature film that Will Tell the love story between a South African soldier and an Angolan.