Chiara Missaggia is an Italian director, filmmaker, and photographer.

She studied communication, photography, and film between the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and NOVA University of Lisbon, embracing a documentary approach and language as both a form of expression and a way of understanding the world around her.

Her work includes Primeiro Cais (First Dock, 2019), selected at several festivals in Portugal; Querida Lisboa (Dear Lisbon, 2023), awarded Best Short Film of May 2024 at ShortCutz Lisbon and an Honourable Mention for Best Documentary Short at LISBIFF – Lisboa Indie Film Festival; and Andar a torzio (2024), winner of Laguna Film Lab 2024.

After spending seven years in Portugal, she is currently based in Valencia, Spain.






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