Ricardo Matos Cabo is an independent film programmer and researcher. Since 1999 he has programmed and organised screenings at various festivals and institutions. In Portugal he collaborated with Culturgest, DocLisboa, the Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. From 2001 until 2007 he curated the film programme of the Lisbon Biennale – experimentadesign and for four years he co-programmed Doc's Kingdom – International Seminar on Documentary Cinema. He has curated screenings at the Goethe-Institut London, the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image / Essay Film Festival, the Institute for Contemporary Arts [ICA], and Tate Modern. Recently he collaborated with the Courtisane Film Festival in Ghent and the Cinéma du réel / Galerie du Jeu de Paume in Paris. Among others he has organised retrospectives of the work of Peter Nestler, Raymonde Carasco and Régis Hébraud, Ogawa Shinsuke, Pedro Costa.