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Vanessa Pimentel was born in 1978, in Lisbon. In 2000, while attending the Philosophy degree at the University of Lisbon, she began working in cinema, in the post-production area, at the national film lab - TOBIS where she had her first contact with the filmmaking world and met several filmmakers, film producers, editors, and so on. Curiosity for Cinema became passion and she never stopped working until today. Vanessa work with many different directors and producers, and have experienced many different kinds of productions, making her experience as an editor very broad. Years later, she had the opportunity to work and travel in productions that took her to different faraway places and China became the main one. Vanessa settled in Macau in 2010, and this very small former Portuguese territory has been her home since then. Years passed and in 2017 Vanessa proposed to direct and produce her first work. Together with Yves Sonolet (a French born artist also living in Macau), she co-wrote and co-directed a documentary / making of “San Va Hotel - behind the scenes”, as part of the Macao Cultural Center's program “Macau - Local View Power” that was a making of “Empire Hotel” by Ivo M. Ferreira (also shot in Macau), but also an insight of real hotel’s history in Ivo’s feature. It had its premiere at the International Festival Macau Cinema Festival 2017 - IFFAM, followed by screenings, in different programs organized by the Cinematheque Passion, in Macau. In May 2019 “San Va Hotel - behind the scenes” was broadcasted by RTP, in Portugal. In 2019, Vanessa started working in a documentary project about the Thai emigrants living in Macau. About to be completed now, Vanessa expects to see this new work out soon.