Cláudia Varejão was born in Porto and studied film in the Programme of Creativity and Artistic Creation at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in partnership with German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin, at Academia Internacional de Cinema de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and photography at AR.CO, in Lisbon. She directed the short documentary “Falta-me” and recently has been working on fiction to create the trilogy of short films “Fim de Semana”, “Um Dia Frio” and “Luz da Manha”.