Beatriz Pacheco Pereira
Maria Beatriz Machado Pacheco Pereira Dorminsky de Carvalho (born 1951) is a Portuguese writer, teacher, sculptor, columnist, critic and specialist in Portuguese cinema. Together with her husband, , she was the founder of the annual Fantasporto film festival in Porto in 1981. Early life Pereira was born in the Bonfim area of Porto on 26 June 1951 into an aristocratic family. She is the daughter of Álvaro Gonçalo de Lima Pacheco Pereira, a professor of history, and of Maria Celina Machado, and the sister of the politician, José Pacheco Pereira. Her grandfather, Gonçalo Pacheco Pereira, was a well-known painter in Porto. She was exposed to the cinema from a young age. Her father took her to the cinema, and the school and church she attended both showed films. Her mother drew pictures of actors. From the age of six she started to classify films. She initially studied Germanic philology at the University of Coimbra before transferring to the University of Porto, where she gradu ...
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Porto
Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire concelho, municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 248,769 people in a municipality with only . Porto's urban area has around 1,319,151 people (2025) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas
, March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centers and ...
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