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António da Cunha Telles was born on 26 February 1935 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. He was a producer and director, known for Terra Estrangeira (1995), Kiss Me (2004) and Pandora (1995). He was married to Renée Gagnon. He died on 23 November 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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Miguel Gomes was born in 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One (2015) and Tabu (2012).- Director
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Pedro Costa was born on 30 December 1958 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Horse Money (2014), Vitalina Varela (2019) and Colossal Youth (2006).- Director
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Manoel de Oliveira was born on 11 December 1908 in Oporto, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for The Cannibals (1988), I'm Going Home (2001) and Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (2007). He was married to Maria Isabel Brandão de Meneses de Almeida Carvalhais. He died on 2 April 2015 in Oporto, Portugal.- Director
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João Pedro Rodrigues was born in 1966 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Will-o'-the-Wisp (2022), Morrer Como Um Homem (2009) and The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012).- Art Director
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João Rui Guerra da Mata is known for The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012), China, China (2007) and Will-o'-the-Wisp (2022).- Director
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João Canijo was born on 10 December 1957 in Porto, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Blood of My Blood (2011), Bad Living (2023) and É o Amor (2013).- Actor
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Born in Figueira da Foz, a cosmopolitan beach resort, moved to Lisbon at the age of 15. In 1963 studies cinema at London School of Technique and starts his first movie at 1965 only concluded five years later. "Silvestre" from Portuguese short stories was presented at Venice Film Festival, where he returns with "Souvenirs from the Yellow House - Recordações da Casa Amarela" and wins the Silver Lion. Again in Venice with "God's Comedy" and another prize (Il Gran Premio Speciale della Giuria da Mostra). Known as provocative, performs in all his film usually as the main character.- Actress
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Maria de Medeiros is the oldest of three daughters by the pianist, maestro and composer António Vitorino D'Almeida and Maria Armanda Esteves. Her sisters are Inês de Medeiros, stage actress and film and stage director and Ana Medeiros, violinist, composer, and music teacher.
Studied at Lycée Français Charles Le Pierre, Lisbon, and when she was 15 years old, she acted in her father's movie, Silvestre. Went to Paris in 1984, aiming to take a college degree in the Beaux Arts, and ended by taking Philosophy, and Drama instead, at the National Schools of Arts and Theatre Techniques.
Lived and filmed in Portugal, and abroad, then she returned to Paris, where she is established since 1987. She married a Catalonian (Spain), and has two daughters. She acquired the French nationality because of her children, and because she has a French culture as well as a Portuguese one. She is fluent in Portuguese, French, English, German, Italian and Spanish.- Director
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Ernesto de Sousa was born on 18 April 1921 in Lisbon, Portugal. Ernesto was a director and editor, known for Dom Roberto (1962) and Cantigamente (1976). Ernesto died on 6 October 1988 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Paulo Rocha was born on 27 May 1977 in Portugal. He is an actor, known for A Rainha e a Bastarda (2022), Amor Amor (2021) and Resistirei (2007).
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Margarida Cordeiro was born in 1939 in Mogadouro, Portugal. She is an editor and director, known for Trás-os-Montes (1976), Ana (1982) and Rosa de Areia (1989).- Writer
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António Reis was born on 27 August 1927 in Valadares, Portugal. He was a writer and director, known for Trás-os-Montes (1976), Ana (1982) and Rosa de Areia (1989). He was married to Margarida Cordeiro. He died on 10 September 1991 in Valadares, Portugal.- Director
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António de Macedo was born on 5 July 1931 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for A Promessa (1973), The Emissaries of Khalom (1988) and The Magic Springs of Gerenia (1983). He died on 5 October 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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Alfredo Tropa was born on 29 March 1939 in Oporto, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for Pedro Só (1972), Le Soleil de Beton (1987) and Barbara (1980). He died on 5 July 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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José Fonseca e Costa was born on 27 June 1933 in Caala, Angola. He was an actor and director, known for A Mulher do Próximo (1988), Sem Sombra de Pecado (1983) and Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites (1996). He died on 1 November 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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António-Pedro Vasconcelos is a Portuguese professor, a chronicler, a television commentator with strong civic involvement. But António-Pedro Vasconcelos is, above all, one of the greatest filmmakers of Portugal, a founding figure of the new Portuguese cinema, he created characters, told stories, put everyday life in films, brought films closer to the Portuguese public. António directed some of the greatest Portuguese films of the last decades, such as Jaime (1999), Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014), Amor Impossível (2015) and Parque Mayer (2018). Throughout his incomparable career he won 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards, in 7 nominations he ended up winning 2 Portuguese Golden Globes and won 3 Portuguese Academy Awards, including the Honorary Award.- Director
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Like other young Portuguese cinephiles from his generation, Eduardo Geada plunged in the world of cinema taking active part at the important film club movement of the sixties, an open and lively place where he assimilated techniques, theories and a vivid view of film history.
Between 1968 and 1976 he worked as a film critic for several Portuguese magazines and newspapers : Seara Nova, Vertice, Vida Mundial, A Capital, Republica and Expresso.
He was the author and presenter of the radio programme Moviola (1985/86), on Antena 1, dedicated to film sound-tracks.
In 1978, as a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship winner, he finished his specialization in Film Studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts (London College University).
Geada completed his Master of Arts in Media and Communication at the Universidade Nova Lisboa (New University of Lisbon, 1985). He got a Phd in Film and History of the Media(1997).
He made a famous TV show on cinema and culture. Between the end of the sixties and the eighties, Geada gave an important contribution to film criticism, submitting his ideas on cinema to enlarged discussion, and publishing several books.
Eduardo Geada was a professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon (Theatre and Film School) from 1978 to 2004 and also at the Escola Superior de Comunicacao Social (Media and Communication College) from 2004 to 2010.
His first film, Sofia e a Educacao Sexual (1973), was one of the last to be censored by the old regime and shown only after the April 1974 Revolution.
One of his first films made for television was O Funeral do Patrao (1975), based on a play by the Italian playwright Dario Fo.
His second feature, A Santa Alianca (1977), based on a scenario by Geada himself, has the pamphlet-like structure of some other interesting post-Revolution films and was selected for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs, Cannes Film Festival.
A most recent film, Passagem por Lisboa (1993), shows the memory of cinema: the film revisits Lisbon, at the beginning of the forties, with the participation of famous characters, like Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, the Duke of Windsor, Primo di Rivera and the fictitious character Victor Laszlo (from the movie Casablanca).- Director
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Fernando Matos Silva was born on 22 May 1940 in Vila Vicosa, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for O Mal-Amado (1974), O Rapaz do Trapezio Voador (2002) and A Luz Submersa (1999).- Director
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Alberto Seixas Santos was born on 20 March 1936 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for Mal (1999), E o Tempo Passa (2011) and Gestures and Fragments: An Essay on the Military and Power (1982). He died on 10 December 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Editor
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Chilean writer-director and editor who studied philosophy and filmmaking at the University of Chile in the 1960s. Based in Paris since 1974, her documentaries and feature films tend to address Latin American gender politics but she is probably best known as the regular editor and collaborator of her late husband Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) with whom she shared the Chilean Art Critics Circle's Bicentennial Award for cinema in 2010. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988 and is often cited alongside Angelina Vázquez and Marilú Mallet as a key woman filmmaker of Chilean exile. A retrospective of her work as director was held at Stanford University in May 2008.- Director
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Miguel Gonçalves Mendes was born on 2 September 1978 in Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for José and Pilar (2010), O Labirinto da Saudade (2018) and Autografia (2004).- Director
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Marco Martins was born in 1972. He is a director and writer, known for Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures (2022), Saint George (2016) and Alice (2005).- Director
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Fernando Lopes was born on 28 December 1935 in Macas de D. Maria, Alvaiazere, Portugal. He was a director and editor, known for O Fio do Horizonte (1993), 98 Octanas (2006) and O Delfim (2002). He died on 2 May 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Writer
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Luís Filipe Rocha was born on 16 November 1947 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a writer and director, known for Cinzento e Negro (2015), A Passagem da Noite (2003) and A Outra Margem (2007).- José Gonçalves do Nascimento is known for Aventuras de um Paraíba (1982).
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Teresa Villaverde was born on 18 May 1966 in Lisbon, Portugal. She is a director and writer, known for Colo (2017), Two Brothers, My Sister (1994) and Transe (2006).- Director
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João Botelho was born on 11 May 1949 in Lamego, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Os Maias: Cenas da Vida Romântica (2014), A Corte do Norte (2008) and Hard Times (1988). He has been married to Leonor Pinhão since 1978. They have three children.- Director
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João Mário Grilo was born on 8 November 1958 in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Far from One's Eyes (1998), A Estrangeira (1982) and Campo de Sangue (2022).- Director
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Lauro António was born on 18 August 1942 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and producer, known for Manhã Submersa (1980), A Bela e a Rosa (1983) and O Vestido Cor de Fogo (1985). He was married to Maria Eduarda Reis Colares. He died on 3 February 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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Joaquim Leitão was born on 21 December 1956 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and actor, known for Inferno (1999), Adão e Eva (1995) and Tentação (1997).- Writer
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Carlos da Silva was born in Setubal, Portugal. He was a writer and director, known for Dying to Go Home (1996). He died on November 15, 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Ex-director of Cannes MIPTV and former collaborator of Luchino Visconti, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Claude Lelouch, Jean Gabin, Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Ben Kingsley, George Sluizer, Emanuel AG, among many other international filmmakers and professionals of the world cinema he befriended.- Director
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Bruno de Almeida is a New York-based filmmaker. Of Portuguese origins, he was born in Paris in March 1965. He grew up in Lisbon and moved to New York in 1985 where he has been living and working ever since. He is fluent in five languages and has made films in the US, Europe and Latin America.- José Cottinelli Telmo is known for A Canção de Lisboa (2016).
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José Leitão de Barros was born on 22 October 1896 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for Ala-Arriba! (1942), Camões (1946) and Lisboa (1930). He was married to Helena Roque Gameiro. He died on 29 June 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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José Álvaro Morais was born on 2 September 1943 in Coimbra, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for The Jester (1987), Quaresma (2003) and Peixe-Lua (2000). He died on 30 January 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal.