 He created a film database called "Cinema Português" (2002–09), published by the Instituto Camões, a department of the Portuguese Foreign Office.In 2003, he started teaching a film course at the Universidade Moderna, Lisbon.From 1980 to 2008, he organised Filmografia Portuguesa (a systematic list of Portuguese films and their features) at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, the Portuguese National Film Archive.