Born

Porto, Portugal

Biography

Regina Guimarães was born in Porto and is a poet, filmmaker, playwright and lyricist. Together with her partner Serge Abramovici (Saguenail), with whom she has lived since 1975, she founded the publishing house Hélastre. She was a university lecturer at FLUP, ESMAE and ESAD. Her work is developed simultaneously or alternately in various artistic areas that often dialog with each other. She is the author of plays and children's songs, a writer of scripts for films, a lyricist and a video director.