João Queiroga

João Queiroga is a Portuguese director, performer and educator whose practice moves between documentary and performance, often centring marginalized voices. He began as a child actor in Portuguese television and theatre, studied in India, at the University of Auckland and Peking University, holds a BA in Communication, Cinema and Theater from Lake Forest College and an MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University, and was a Calouste Gulbenkian, Hoffman, Davis UWC and Fulbright scholar.

His films have screened at festivals including IDFA, Hot Docs, BFI Flare and DocLisboa; his hybrid documentary Our Skin was nominated for an Iris Award and won a Lili Award. He has worked with Cinema/Chicago, the Chicago International Film Festival and Chicago Filmmakers, was a department chair at the New York Film Academy, and is Associate Professor and Chair of the Film + Design Minor at Northwestern University in Qatar.