Portuguese filmmaker, born in Porto in 1957. He completed his degree at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 1980. He has a post-graduate degree in Film Production – EAVE, Media program. He worked as a sound engineer in over 100 films by a wide range of directors, including Manoel de Oliveira, Alain Tanner, João Botelho, António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, André Téchiné, Werner Schroeter, João César Monteiro and Paulo Rocha. He has also produced more than 30 films, such as Recordações da Casa Amarela or A Comédia de Deus de João César Monteiro, both of which won awards at Venice. In 1988, he directed his first feature-length film, Uma Pedra No Bolso, followed by Onde Bate o Sol. Both films were selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. With Nuno Leonel, he directed and produced several documentary films such as Surfavela, Cidade Velha and Rabo de Peixe. Both Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel head PRESENTE, a publishing and production company dedicated to independent projects in music, literature and cinema. In 2013, his documentary E Agora? Lembra-me not only won three awards at Locarno (among which a Silver Lion), it travelled more than 40 countries, winning distinctions in a festival circuit normally dedicated to fiction film.

FILMOGRAPHY

2018 – Pathos (em produção) (co-realizado com Nuno Leonel)

2015 – Rabo de Peixe, director’s cut (co-realizado com Nuno Leonel)

2013 – Fim de Citação

2013 – O Novo Testamento de Jesus Cristo segundo João

2013 – E Agora? Lembra-me

2007 – Porca Miséria (co-realizado com Nuno Leonel)

2007 – Sol Menor (co-realizado com Nuno Leonel)

1998 – Com Cuspo e com Jeito se bota no cu do Sujeito (co-realizado com Nuno Leonel)

1998 – Entrevista com Yvonne Bezerra de Mello (co-realizado com Nuno Leonel)

1998 – Surfavela (co-realizado com Nuno Leonel)

1993 – Para cá dos Montes

1992 – Das Tripas Coração / Twin Flames

1989 – Onde Bate o Sol

1988 – Uma Pedra no Bolso