Born in Lisbon, he studied at the National Conservatory’s Escola de Cinema. He has directed documentaries and nine short-films for cinema, some of which won national and international awards. His feature-length film Guerra Civil won the award for Best Portuguese Feature-Length Film at IndieLisboa in 2010 e the Prix Jury Jeune at the BlackMovie Film Festival 2013 in Geneva. He has worked in cinema since 1978 in sound recording and editing, production and direction. In 1994/95, he went to Paris to study sound post-production for cinema with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2014, with a scholarship from Fundação Oriente, he went to East Timor, where he undertook photography work and theoretical work on the role of the image in Ruy Cinatti’s work. He is a member of the Lisbon University’s Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, as part of the research group “Ciência e Arte”.

FILMOGRAPHY

2018 – A LUZ DOS DIAS COMPRIDOS, 17’ (em finalização)

2018 – AL BERTO, A VIDA ERRANTE, 71’

2015 – PRIMEIRO AMOR, 19’

2012 – O MEU AVÔ JOLY, 54’

2010 – GUERRA CIVIL, 94’

2010 – A Orquestra Geração vista pelas Crianças, 30’

2009 – Um roupão vermelho sangue, 16’

2007 – EUROPA 2007, 19’

2005 – 3 postais da Etiópia (+3), 38’

2004 – Figura Obrigatórias, 21’

2004 – Da minha janela, 9’

2001 – Que Tenhas Tudo o Que desejas, 12’

2000 – BORIS E JEREMIAS, 16’

1999 – O PEDIDO DE EMPREGO, 8’

1998 – É SÓ UM MINUTO, 14’

1997 – ENTRADA EM PALCO, 72’