Biography

Carolina Dias holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from PUC-Rio, Brazil and a DEA (Diplôme d´Études Approfondies) in Fine Arts from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Currently, she is a PhD student in Sustainability Science at University of Lisbon. Her PhD research focus on analysing Sustainability narratives on films and audiovisual content, and in creating artistic works of sustainable futures.

Carolina has been working in the cinema and audiovisual sector, mainly as a producer and executive producer, but also as a film director and scriptwriter for the last 20 years. In 2002, she founded Refinaria Filmes (www.refinariafilmes.com.br), through which she produced several films (fictions and documentaries) in international coproduction.