Designer and art director
Catarina Sampaio is a Visual Communication Designer and Art Director based in Lisbon, who specializes in film and broadcast marketing.
She has worked in the film industry for over 10 years, including on several productions by established filmmakers, both Portuguese and International, such as Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg, Fernando Lopes, António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Raúl Ruiz, José Fonseca e Costa, Tiago Guedes, Robert Schwentke, Valeria Sarmiento, Andrzej Zulawski, Denis Berry, João Mário Grilo, Mário Barroso, João Nuno Pinto, Hugo Vieira da Silva, amongst many others.
Her work has received several distinctions, among them the award for Best Film Poster from the Portuguese Film Academy.
design services & art direction
- key art
- advertisement
- DVD packaging
- webdesign
- branding
- publishing
- outdoors
- campaigns
- social media
- title treatment
- film credits
- treatment design
Resume
Catarina graduated in Graphic Design and Multimedia Technologies, at the School of Art and Design of Caldas da Rainha; has an M.A. in Communication Design and New Media, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon; a Post-Graduation degree in New Media and Web Practices, from FCSH - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Nova University of Lisbon; and specialized in Advertising Creativity, at Restart - Institute of Creativity, Arts and New Technologies. She is currently a PhD candidate in Communication Design, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.
She started working in advertising and worked as an art director at Euro RSCG Worldwide/ Havas, but soon after trying her hand as a graphic designer for arthouse film productions, with the Franco-Portuguese producer Paulo Branco, she decided to change her focus, specializing in film marketing.
Since then, she has gained experience in all fields related to communication design in the film industry, from production to distribution, exhibition, international sales, festivals, television and VOD, where her design practice ranges in a diversity of media, from print to digital. Currently, she works as a designer and art director and runs her independent design cabinet.
She is also a researcher at CIEBA - Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts and has had research papers published in scientific journals and artistic work presented in several international art and design conferences and exhibitions. For more information on her design and new media research, visit lab.catarinasampaio.com.
Expertise: Art direction, graphic design, packaging design, webdesign, typography, photography retouch, digital illustration.
Watch her interview on the website Portuguese Film Poster (PT).
Photo © Mafalda Relvas
Awards
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Jury member - Sophia Awards
Portuguese Film Academy
Best Film Poster category
2022 -
Jury member - Sophia Student Awards
Portuguese Film Academy
Best Film Poster category
2021 -
Tribute Award - LEFFEST
For the Graphic Design work through all editions of Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival
2020
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Winner - Best Film Poster
Sophia Awards - Portuguese Film Academy
Poster for A Herdade (The Domain), a film by Tiago Guedes
2020
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3rd Best Film Poster
Sophia Awards - Portuguese Film Academy
Poster for O Caderno Negro (The Black Book), a film by Valeria Sarmiento
2019
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Nominee - Marketeer Awards
Nominee in the Art and Culture category
for the campaign of Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival
2014
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Award for Best DVD Edition
Les Prix du Syndicat de la Critique
Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma et des Films de Télévision
Special collector's edition of Mystères de Lisbonne (Mysteries of Lisbon), by Raúl Ruiz
2011
Exhibitions
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Portuguese Film Posters Exhibition
Organized by ICA Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual and LisbonWeek
Tobis Portuguesa, Quinta das Conchas
2018
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1st Exhibition of the Portuguese Film Posters
Organized by the Portuguese Film Academy
Portuguese Society of Fine Arts
2017