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Biografia do Realizador Director Biography

Academic Background • B.A./M.A., Cinema/film production, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC, National Film and Theater School), Lisbon, Portugal. Professional Experience As a Director • Zé Pedro Rock n Roll – Feaure film documentary • Awards: Public Award for Best Film at Doclisboa 2019; Award of Merit Documentary Feature, at the Accolade Global Film Competition, USA 2020; Award of Recognition, at the Impact Doc Awards, USA 2020; Best Feature Film Documentary, at Festival de Cine Independiente de Salto, Uruguai 2020; Best Documentary at Mabig Film Festival, Germany 2020; Best Feature Film, at the Best Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey 2020; Best International Feature, at Silicon Beach Film Festival, USA 2020; Award for Best Production of a Feature Film at the South Film and Arts Academy Festival in Chile 2020; Best Use of Music/Musical Score in a Feature Documentary, at the Something Wicked DocuFest, USA 2021; Honorable Mention at the Florence Film Awards, Italy 2020; Honorable Mention at the Berlin Indie Film Festival, Germany 2020; Nominee for Best Documentary Project at Prince of Prestige Academy Awards, USA 2020; Nominee for Best Motion Picture, at the Prince of Prestige Academy Awards, USA 2020; Best Feature Documentary at Cult Movies International Film Festival, GB 2021; Best Documentary Feature, at the Only The Best Film Awards, USA 2021; Sophia Award from the Portuguese Film Academy for the best trailer 2020. Nominee for the Sophia Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Portuguese Film Academy. • Festivals: Sweden Film Awards, Suécia 2020; Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival, USA 2020; Prisma Rome Independent Film Awards, Itália 2020; Hollywood Gold Awards, USA 2020; New York Movie Awards, USA 2020. Hong Kong Indie Film Festival, China 2021. • Official Selections: Porto/Post/Doc, 2019; Dili International Film Festival, Timor 2020; South Film and Arts Academy Festival, Chile 2020; II Mostra de Cinema da Praia dos Carneiros, Brasil 2020; FIDBA-Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2020; APOX Film Festival, Croatia 2020; San José International Film Awards, Costa Rica 2020; IN-EDIT, Brasil 2020; Vonlinefilmfestival, Italy 2020. Interdoc, Moscow Russia 2021; Symbolic Art Film Festival, São Petersburg, Russia 2021; Something Wicked Docufest at Atlanta, USA 2021; Cult Movies International Film Festival, London, GB 2021. • Commercial Distribution in Portugal (NOS), in July 2020. • Commercial Distribution in Luxemburg, (Kinepolis), in May 2021. • Alfama em Si (Alfama: A Neighborhood Song) – forthcoming. First feature film performed entirely through Portuguese fado music. To premier in cinemas in Portugal. • Celeste – 2015. Extended documentary feature on Celeste Rodrigues, an icon of Portuguese fado. Shown as opening film of the Heart Beat section Doclisboa 2015; streaming premier on Docaliance. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/105430883 • Bolero do Coronel Sensível Que Fez Amor em Monsanto – 2014. Music video for a song by the same name performed by Portuguese band A Naifa. • A Tourada – 2013. Music video for A Naifa. Winner of the best Music Video of 2013 the Portuguese newspaper Público. • De Cara a la Parede – 2012. Music video for A Naifa. • O Fado da Bia – 2012. Documentary feature on fado singer Beatriz da Conceição, known popularly as Bia. Opening film on the Lisbon Fado Festival in 2012. Official Selection: Heart Beat section of Doclisboa Film Festival 2013; 16th International Film Festival, Punta del Este, Uruguay 2013; 30th Festival of Film, Bogotá, Colombia 2013; 9th International Film Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2013; 7th Atlanticdoc International Festival of Documentary Film, Uruguay 2013; 1st Fado Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014. Broadcast nationally and internationally on Portuguese public television (RTP2, RTP International). In Portuguese with English subtitles. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/43212173 • Poeta en Si Mayor – 2012. Documentary feature on Horacio Ferrer, poet of Tango music. Official Selection: 16th International Film Festival, Cine de Punta del Este, Uruguay 2013; International Tango Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016. In Spanish. • Fado das Horas – 2012. Short Documentary commissioned by the Portuguese newspaper Público to celebrate UNESCO’s recognition of the Fado as Intangible Cultural Patrimony of Humanity in 2011. See https://vimeo.com/32739881. • O Rei Sem Coroa – 2011. Documentary feature on Portuguese fado singer Fernando Maurício, perhaps the most influential male voice of modern fado. Opening film of the Lisbon Fado Festival, Portugal 2011; featured film of 2nd Fado Festival of Madrid, Spain. Broadcast nationally and internationally on Portuguese public television (RTP2, RTP International). Trailer: https://vimeo.com/24321068. • A Minha Rua – 2010. Short Documentary on a small, vibrant Lisbon neighborhood. Official Selection: Festival Luso-Brasileiro, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal 2010; Shortcutz Festivals in Lisbon and Oporto 2011; Winner, Best Documentary, Shortcutz Festival Lisbon 2011. In Portuguese and English. • Fado Celeste – 2010, Documentary feature on Portuguese fado singer Celeste Rodrigues. Closing film of Lisbon Fado Festival 2010. Official selection: 2nd Fado Festival of Madrid, Spain 2012. Broadcast nationally and internationally on Portuguese public television (RTP2, RTP International). Trailer: https://vimeo.com/142497490 • Poema – 2009. Short Film. Official Selection of the 1st Festival of Micro-short Films, Lisbon 2009. As Producer • Producer and Director, Zé Pedro Rock n Roll – 2019. Documentary feature. • Producer and Director, Alfama: A Neighborhood Song – forthcoming. • Producer, Blackmaria Productions, April 2015 – April 2017. • Co-Producer, Cabaret Maxime (Bruno de Almeida, dir.). Feature film., Portuguese released in 2018. Winner of best film at Coimbra Caminhos do Cinema Português, Autores awards in 2019, Portugal. • Producer, The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues, dir.)–2016. Feature film. Premiered in Locarno´s Film Festival (Rodrigues awarded Golden Leopard for best director). • Production Manager, Fado (Jonas Rothlaender, dir.)–2016. Feature film. Shown at Max-Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken (Rothlaender awarded Best Director) and at Achtung Berlin Film Festival. • Production Manager, The Lecture (dir. Bruno de Almeida)–2012. Short film. • Production Manager, Les mauvais rêves de monsieur Antunes (Maria Pinto Martin, dir.)–2011. Feature Film. • Producer and Director, O Rei Sem Coroa–2011. • Producer and Director, Fado Celeste–2010. • Line Producer, O Regresso em Diante–2008 (Mariana Castro, dir.). Short film. • Executive Producer, Republica das Bananas Inc., October 2007 – May 2008.

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