Miguel Rico is a screenwriter, media critic, and PhD candidate in Communication Sciences, specializing in Film and Television at NOVA University Lisbon. He holds a Master’s degree in Audiovisual and Multimedia from the Higher School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS), where he was invited to teach several introductory courses in the master’s program, including Essential Grammar of the Image and Introduction to Screenwriting – Formatting. He also taught sessions in the Screenwriting Workshop at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

His professional background includes work as a video editor in entertainment, advertising, podcasting, and institutional communication, as well as collaborations with SP Televisão as a pitch deck/treatment designer and script doctor. As an essayist and critic, his work has appeared in Comunidade Cultura e Arte and Shifter. As a screenwriter he worked on various adaptations, feature films, series, and a prime-time fiction project aired on SIC and distributed by Disney+. In 2024, he received development funding from the Portuguese Film and Audiovisual Institute (ICA) to create and write a television series.

He has served as a juror for the Leiria Film Festival and for the Uma Carta de Amor a José Saramago competition promoted by the José Saramago Foundation.

Academic output includes articles, book chapters, and presentations at national and international conferences organised by institutions such as the University of New England’s Popular Culture Research Network, the Latin American Studies Association, and the Portuguese Association of Moving Image Researchers. He is a researcher at the Laboratory of Cinema and Philosophy (CineLab) of the Institute of Philosophy, NOVA University Lisbon.