Sofia Sampaio, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow in Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL) and associated researcher in the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-IUL). In 2014 and 2015 she was Principal Investigator of the research project ‘Behind the camera: Practices of visuality and mobility in the Portuguese tourist film’ (EXPL/IVCANT/1706/2013), funded by the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology (FCT). In that quality, she coordinated an international team of anthropologists, historians and film scholars, in association with the National Archive of the Moving Image (ANIM) of the Portuguese Film Museum (Cinemateca Portuguesa–Museu do Cinema). Between January 2014 and December 2018 she was recipient of an FCT starting grant (2013), with a research project entitled ‘Exploring tourist and filmmaking practices through Portuguese non-fiction film: from the early travelogue to the tourism promotional film (1910-1980)’ (IF/00313/2013). Sofia works across disciplinary borders, in the areas of social sciences (with an emphasis on anthropology and communication) and the humanities (with an emphasis on history and film studies). She has been an associate graduate student in the Department of Media and Communication of Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005), and a visiting scholar in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside (2011), and in the Departamento de Teoria dels Llenguatges i Ciències de la Comunicació, University of Valencia, Spain (2017). Between February and August 2019 she was a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she conducted research on transnational filmmaking practices between Portugal and Brazil, in the 1930s, with a project funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Ref. 402850/2018-1). Her research interests include: the history of the travel film and tourism film in Portugal (1896-1980); filmmaking practices in Portugal; moving image archives; non-fiction archival films (newsreels, industrial films, ethnographic films, home movies); and the archeology of the media. Her research combines document analysis (text and images) and ethnographic and archival work (including observation and interviews). Since May 2020 she is Editor-in-chief of Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image.