Manuel Ferreira

Current

• Copywriter at Accedo Interactive Agency

Past

• Teaching Assistant at Universidade Independente
• Journalist / Collaborator at Cinéfilos.tv
• Copywriter Trainee at GreyHome

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Education

• Cenjor
• Universidade Independente
• Lisbon aD School

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Website

Manuel Ferreira’s Summary

Manuel Ferreira’s Specialties:

Advertising concepting and creation, brainstorming, copywriting, interactive media, the occasional Haiku.

Manuel Ferreira’s Experience

• Copywriter

  Accedo Interactive Agency

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Copywriter for clients like ZON, Sumol, Impresa Digital, TMN, UZO, Fox Portugal, Cofidis, Fnac and Pernod Ricard.

• Teaching Assistant

  Universidade Independente

  (Higher Education industry)

  October 2006 — June 2007 (9 months)

  Teaching assistant on Comunicação Audiovisual (1st semester) & Pós-Produção de Vídeo (2nd semester).

• Journalist / Collaborator

  Cinéfilos.tv

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  May 2003 — January 2007 (3 years 9 months)

  Cinéfilos.tv was an independent cinema based contents team that operated their own website. Besides penning hundreds of articles and dozens of reviews (film, DVD, music, book), I also did PR, marketing and produced hundreds of participation-awarding pastimes for our readers. During my tenure at Cinéfilos.tv our on-line visits escalated around eightfold and the team got picked up by Media Capital (one of the largest media groups in Portugal) to produce their portal’s cinema based content.

• Copywriter Trainee

  GreyHome

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2006 — March 2006 (2 months)

  As a copywriter trainee i was given the opportunity to work on accounts such as Seat and Bollycao.

Manuel Ferreira’s Education

• Cenjor

  Ateliê , 2007 — 2007

  Ateliê de Rádio, 120h, decorrido entre Fevereiro e Março de 2007
  Técnicas de Expressão Oral, 30h, decorrido em Abril de 2007
  Ateliê de Televisão, 120h, decorrido entre Abril e Maio de 2007

• Universidade Independente

  Graduate , Communications (Major in Journalism) , 2003 — 2007

  Finished college with a grade average of 14 out of 20.
  Class president during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of college.

• Lisbon aD School

  First Professional Degree , Copywriting , 2005 — 2006

  Submited work in the following advertising contests:
  
  85th Annual ADC Awards
  +Cinema (Shortlist)
  CCP (2nd Place)
  EU campaign "For Diversity. Against Discrimination."
  
  Developed creative for the following clients:
  
  Algarve's Tourist Yellow Pages
  Universidade Independente (won)

Additional Information

Manuel Ferreira’s Websites:

• My Website

Manuel Ferreira’s Interests:

Writing (whatever, whenever, anything, everything), Music (Classic Rock does it for me these days), Comics (DC is the way to go), Guitar Hero (Rockin' in the Medium)

Manuel Ferreira’s Groups:

•    CCP - Clube de Criativos de Portugal
•    Lisbon aD School

Manuel Ferreira’s Honors:

11/’08 - Prémios Sapo, Silver: Klepht Online, Klepht
11/’07 - Prémios Sapo, Shortlist: Muda, UZO
11/’07 - Prémios Sapo, Gold: TMN Surf Team, TMN
11/’07 - Prémios Sapo, Silver: O Sexto Dedo, TMN
10/’07 - Sinos, Silver: O Sexto Dedo, TMN
10/’07 - Prémios Neurónio, Honorable Mention: O Sexto Dedo, TMN
06/’06 - CCP, Honorable Mention: RSF, Millennium bcp
05/’06 - +Cinema, Shortlist: Mourinho, ICEP
05/’99 - High School, 1st place: Creative Writing Contest - Published in the school’s yearbook

Manuel Ferreira’s Contact Settings

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