Arturo Delgado Pereira (Chico Pereira)

Photo courtesy of the artist.

Arturo Delgado Pereira (PhD), also known as Chico Pereira, is a practicing filmmaker and academic living between Finland and Spain. Pereira’s film work combines experimental ethnographic methods, art as social practice and performative documentary, with a particular interest in rural and post-industrial areas. Pereira’s artistic work has been shown worldwide, and won awards, in places such as IDFA, Edinburgh, Leipzig, IDA, Rotterdam, Yamagata and MoMA-NYC. Pereira holds a practice-based PhD in Film and Digital Media with an emphasis on Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Currently, Pereira directs the master’s program in Documentary Film at the renowned ELO Film School, Aalto University, Finland, where he also works as a Professor of Documentary Film Practice and supervises MA and PhD artistic research projects in several film and media-related disciplines. Pereira has supervised film work that has been shown in some of the most important film festivals in the world and has carried out workshops in documentary film development in the USA, Scotland, and Spain, amongst others.

https://www.aalto.fi/en/people/arturo-delgado-pereira

Advisor: PhD and MFA