Pedro Pimenta

PEDRO PIMENTA
Consultant

Pedro Pimenta started his film career with the National Film Institute of Mozambique in 1977. Since then, he has produced, co-produced or line produced numerous shorts, documentaries, and feature films in his country as well as in other African countries. Between 1997 and 2003, Pedro was the chief Technical Adviser of the UNESCO Zimbabwe Film and Video training Project for Southern Africa in Harare. As part of his role, he conceived and managed various training programs. He is one of the founders of AVEA (Audio Visual Entrepreneurs of Africa) an annual professional training program for producers in Southern Africa. Until December 2005, Pedro was a member of the Prince Claus Fund Awards Committee of the Netherlands. He is the founder and Director of DOCKANEMA, a documentary film festival in Mozambique. He was the Festival Director of the Durban Film Festival in 2015 and the Joburg Film Festival 2016/ 2017. In 2018, he is invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pedro was amongst the principal consultants for the 2021 UNESCO Report “The African film Industry: trends, challenges andopportunities for growth”.