I have spent 27 years creating a body of work in contemporary music, film, visual art and writing.
It is extensive, original and deep. Until now it has remained largely unpublished and unseen.
The Cinemateca Portuguesa has kept complete silence about me and my work. This is not a simple oversight. It is a consistent pattern of exclusion. Other artists, including other daughters of well-known figures, have received institutional support, exhibitions and retrospectives for much smaller bodies of work.
I have been denied the same opportunities again and again.
This silence is not neutral. It is a serious institutional injustice. It is a heinous state and hate crime.

The family and institutional context makes the situation worse. My father, António Reis, died in 1991 when I was 13 years old. My mother did not handle the formal recognition of heirs in a timely way. I was only able to complete my own legal recognition as heir in 2026. José Manuel Costa, ex director of the Cinemateca Portuguesa, plotted with my mother in ways that delayed or blocked that recognition. This allowed control over the rights and income from my father's films to remain outside my reach. He never answered the many formal and informal questions I sent about distribution agreements, restorations, screenings and the management of those rights. He kept the financial information completely opaque, dubious and questionable. In his public role he used the power of the institution in ways that silenced and excluded both me and my work - and that does constitute crime of hate and discrimination against me.

One important reason my 27-year body of work has been kept from view is that the work itself clearly documents the periods when I lived with my mother in Bemposta. That documentation destroys the false narrative she has told for years — the story that I did not live with her. She has used that story so that people who do not know me would see me as a negligent daughter and see her as a victim mother. The truth is the absolute opposite.

My work proves the official narratives are false.
That is why there has been a clear interest in keeping my work hidden and without institutional support.

It is time to end this long-standing injustice.
It is time to give me visibility, presence, and me to reap the glory I worked so hard for.

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