About

OUR TEAM

Luís Humberto Teixeira

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Mentor, founder and director of CLIT, Luís has worked as a translator to help people understand each other. He's also a political scientist in his spare time, trying to understanding why people don't understand each other.

Helena de Sousa Freitas

COMMUNICATION

Helena writes. Essays, articles, short stories, poetry... anything that involves sewing words to sow emotions or inform. She's won several awards for her writing and her volunteering action, as well as an audience award for a short film she directed.

Maria João Palma

PRODUCTION

In the early 1990s, Maria João started working behind the scenes at Festroia, doing whatever was needed to get everything running smoothly. That's also her focus on CLIT, where she has been a part of the team from the get-go.

THE ORGANISATIONS BEHIND CLIT