As part of the celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of LIACOM’s research structure, the Oral Memory Archive of Communication Professions (AMOPC), a call is now open for the submission of proposals for documentary videos and audiovisual essays that make critical and creative use of the archive’s collection.

Proposals should contribute to academic reflection on communication and media professions, exploring oral memory as a source of historical, sociological, cultural, and political knowledge.

Innovative artistic and formal approaches are also encouraged, provided they are developed using the AMOPC collection.

Thematic Areas

Proposals may address, among others, the following thematic areas:

✓ Access to professional activities: from informal learning to professionalization;
✓ Working conditions and production routines;
✓ Technological disruptions and transformations in professional practice;
✓ Constraints, limits, and tensions in the exercise of professions;
✓ The influence and impact of different historical contexts and major events on professional activities (25 April 1974, 1 May 1974, Portugal’s entry into the EEC in 1986, strikes, among others);
✓ Boundaries and redefinitions of professional activities;
✓ Technological reconfiguration of communication and media professions;
✓ Autonomy and heteronomy in the exercise of professional activities;
✓ Any thematic axis that creatively explores, from an artistic, formal, or conceptual perspective, the AMOPC audiovisual collection.

Submission Conditions

Proposals must comply with the following conditions:

Format: scientific documentary video or audiovisual essay;
Final piece duration: between 15 and 30 minutes.

Mandatory elements of the proposal:

✓ Synopsis (including theoretical and methodological framework);
✓ Technical sheet (authorship, institutional affiliation, contacts, technical resources);
✓ Other elements considered relevant for the evaluation of the proposal.

Submitted proposals will be evaluated by a scientific committee, based on thematic relevance, conceptual quality, methodological rigor, adequacy to the AMOPC collection, and contribution to knowledge on communication and media professions.

Schedule

30 June 2026: submission of final projects (synopsis, technical sheet, and edited piece).

Presentation and Dissemination

The selected works will be screened and discussed as part of the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of AMOPC, to be held on a date to be announced in due course. Whenever possible, their dissemination will be promoted in academic, educational, and cultural contexts associated with the project.

Any requests for further information should be sent to: amopc.escs@gmail.com

Scientific Committee

Catarina Burnay (CECC/FCH/UCP)
Cláudia Mesquita (UFMG, Brazil)
Filipa Subtil (LIACOM/ESCS-IPL)
Joana Pontes (LIACOM/ESCS-IPL)
Jorge Souto (LIACOM/ESCS-IPL)
Júlia Leitão de Barros (LIACOM/ESCS-IPL)
Kiluanje Liberdade (CECS/University of Minho)
Leonor Areal (IHC/NOVA University)
Manuela Penafria (Labcom/UBI)
Paulo Barbosa (LIACOM/ESCS-IPL)