Pedro Velho / Pedro Queirós Pinto
About

About

Pedro Queirós Pinto, artistically known as Pedro Velho, is a Portuguese researcher, mediator, and creative based in Norway.

His creative work mainly focuses on non-fiction practices, including visual arts, performance, photography, film, and immersive media.

As a researcher, he investigates creative practices, digital narratives, immersive media (XR), and technological mediation, as well as how these practices serve as platforms for social education, mediation, coexistence, and care.

Film Festivals

2024 | National Grand Prix Competition – FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival – PT
2024 | MIXBrasil – MIX.XR Award – Special Mention – BR
2024 | AIXR Awards | Finalist of the “Social Impact Award”

2025 | Shortcutz Lisboa – PT
2025 | Queer Terceira – PT
2025 | Roze Filmdagen – NL
2025 | AMPLA – Showcase of Award-Winning Films – PT
2025 | BOZAR Brussels – The Centre for Fine Arts – Immersive Cinema – BE
2025 | Anteo – Palazzo del Cinema – IT
2024 | 40th LGBT Film Festival Ljubljana – SL
2024 | DescubreXR – ES
2024 | Festival Fértil – PT
2024 | 24FRAME Future Film Fest – IT
2024 | QueerLisboa – PT
2024 | Prishtina Queer Festival – XK
2024 | Anibar International Animation Festival – XK
2024 | Sunny Side of the Doc – FR
2024 | RIO2C – Rio Creative Conference – BR
2024 | Kaboom Animation Festival – NL
2024 | SXSW 2024 – USA
2023 | 27th Ji.hlava IDFF – CZ
2023 | DOK Leipzig – DOK Neuland – GER
2019 | Ethnographic Film Screening – 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA) – PT
2018 | 22 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival – Opus Bonum (Best World Documentary Film) – CZ

Grants

2024 | AIXR Inclusivity XR Grant

Graphic Design and Illustration Awards and Selections

2019 | VI Pingo Doce National Children’s Literature Award – Illustration – PT
2020 | Concurso Lusófono da Trofa – Prémio Matilde Rosa Araújo – Special Mention in Illustration – PT
2024 | Collective exhibition “Infinite Braga 22×22” at Braga em Risco – PT
2024 | Collective exhibition “Resistance” at Fábrica das Histórias – Casa Jaime Umbelino, Torres Vedras ’24 – PT
2021 | Finalist – Capital da Cultura do Eixo Atlântico Award at Braga’s Biennial of Illustration ’21 – PT

Publications

2019 | “O Protesto do Lobo Mau” – Award Winning Children’s Book

Photo Festivals and Exhibitions
2018 | Other theatricalities – LIGHT BOX | Da Luz Collective – Galeria FOCO – PT
2017 | Fiebre Photobook Madrid – Dummies Selection – ES
2017 |Flâneur – New Urban Narratives – Dummies Exhibition – PT
2017 | Lisbon’s 8th Photobook Fair – Dummies Exhibition – PT

Other Projects
2018/19 | IV Laboratory of Writing for Theatre – TNDM II,  PT
2017 | Laboratory of Experimental Theatre  – CCC, PT