Manuela Viegas (born 13 October 1957) is a Portuguese film

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and director. She is considered to be part of '' The School of Reis'' film tradition. An influential film editor since the 1970s, she has edited dozens of films, among them Pedro Costa's '' Blood'', Joaquim Sapinho's '' The Policewoman'' and João César Monteiro's ''Silvestre'' and ''À Flor do Mar''. In 1999, she directed her first and only feature film to date, ''

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'', which was part of the official competition of the

49th Berlin International Film Festival The 49th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 February 1999. The festival opened with ''Aimée & Jaguar'' by Max Färberböck. The Golden Bear was awarded to Canadian-American film '' The Thin Red Line'' directed by ...

, being the only Portuguese film to featureInfos at rosafilmes.pt
click on "''ENG''", then on "''DIRECTORS''", then on "''JOAQUIM SAPINHO''" until '' Tabu'' was selected in 2012. She is nowadays a professor of film editing at the

Portuguese National Film School The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (''Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema'') of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the ...

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