PhD in Artistic Studies – Cinema and Audiovisual (University of Lisbon), Filipa Rosário is a researcher at CECC – Research Centre for Communication and Culture (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) and a member of the cluster “Critique, Conflict and Culture.” She is co-coordinator of the Cinema and Landscape Working Group of AIM – Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento. She was previously a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies (University of Lisbon), where she also taught. She has participated in teacher training programmes promoted by the Plano Nacional de Cinema and was a visiting researcher at Tisch School of the Arts (New York University) in 2006 and 2008.

Her research is situated in Film Studies, with a particular focus on cinematic space, landscape, mobility, and comparative approaches. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento, [Inter]sections, Journal of Lusophone Studies, and Cinema: Revista de Filosofia e da Imagem em Movimento.

She has edited several collective volumes on cinema, including O tempo e a terra – ensaios sobre "O Movimento das Coisas" de Manuela Serra (2025), Um Olhar Português. Natureza e Cinema no Séc. XXI (with José Duarte, 2024), Archives in 'Lusophone' Film (with Sandra Camacho and Ana Bela Morais, 2023), O Quarto Perdido do MotelX. Os Filmes do Terror Português (1911–2006) (with João Monteiro, 2022), ReFocus: The Films of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (with José Duarte, 2022), Procesos Intermediales. Cine, Literatura, Espacio (with Paulo Cunha and Fernando González García, 2020), and New Approaches to Cinematic Spaces (with Iván Villarmea Álvarez, 2019). She is the author of O Trabalho do Actor na Obra de John Cassavetes (2017).