Nuno Bernardo has a degree in International Journalism by the Escola Superior de Jornalismo do Porto (Oporto Journalism School) the most recognized Journalism school in Portugal. He is a published author and an associated member of SPA - Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (Portuguese Authors Society).After spending some years in the Marketing and Advertising world, Nuno Bernardo established his own Company, beActive, where he created “Sofia’s Diary”, the Interactive TV Series that explores the modern Pop culture and European teen culture and is pioneering the mix of traditional medias like TV, Books and features films with New Medias like Internet and Mobile.
With “Sofia’s Diary” he was nominated in 2004 for Innovation Award in Mobile Entertainment Forum Awards (London) and also to the Mobile & Internet TV Awards in 2007 (Cannes). The Series is being localized in different territories around the World and distributed by Sony Pictures Television.
His pioneering work on this area lead him to be guest and keynote speaker in International events like the Toronto, Cannes and Venice International Film Festivals, MIPTV (Cannes), MEM (London), Participation TV (London), the Interactive TV Show Europe, and many others. His work was also featured in entertainment industry magazines like Variety, Broadcast and C21.
Recently, he’s being producing the UK version of Sofia’s Diary for Sony and social Networking BEBO.COM, a new Interactive show called “Flatmates” for the Portuguese Web portal SAPO and the DoYouBelieveMe.com interactive Web-based thriller to be launched in North America in Q2 2008 on iTunes. Last year he created the Web magazine “Beat Generation” for Microsoft MSN Portal, directed the Web-Documentary “The Art of B-Boying” and was Executive Producer on the TV series “The Weight” featuring Linda Hamilton.
In his home country, Nuno Bernardo already sold more than 400.000 books and his work is being licensed for International publishing.