Ansgar Schaefer is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. At the same time, he works as a screenwriter, producer and director of cinematographic documentaries In 1986, he graduated in Political and Germanic Sciences from the University of Trier (Germany), having held in 2002 a master's degree in Contemporary History at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the NOVA University of Lisbon. He received his doctorate in 2014 at the same Faculty with a thesis on the interrelationship between History and Documentary Cinematography. His fields of research are the political, economic and social relations between Nazi Germany and the Estado Novo, as well as Cinema and History, especially in its discourse of the Colonial Empire in cinematographic documentary. He is currently deputy coordinator of a research project on forced workers in Nazi Germany of Portuguese nationality. He is co-founder of the production company Kintop where he has been involved as a producer and researcher in the production and pre-production of a dozen documentaries.