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Raquel Schefer
Raquel Schefer is a researcher, a filmmaker, and a film curator. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and Audiovisual Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 University, with a dissertation on Mozambican revolutionary cinema, a Master in Documentary Cinema from the University of Cinema of Buenos Aires, and a degree in Communication Sciences from the New University of Lisbon. She published the book El Autorretrato en el Documental (Self-Portrait in Documentary) in 2008, in Argentina, as well as several book chapters and articles. She has taught at Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 University, Grenoble Alpes University, Paris Est - Marne-la-Vallée University, Rennes 2 University, the University of Cinema of Buenos Aires, and the University of Communication in Mexico City. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently, she is a post-doctoral FCT fellow at the CEC/University of Lisbon and the University of the Western Cape, and a co-editor of the quarterly of theory and history of cinema La Furia Umana.