Director: Pedro Augusto Almeida

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Biography: Filmmaker born in Setúbal, Portugal, in the early 1990s. He has a College Degree in Video and Documentary Cinema from ESTA and a Postgraduate Degree in Art Studies from FBAUP. In 2012, was selected for “Borderline”, an international film project which had the support of Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012. Between 2013 and 2016 he was the projectionist at Teatro do Campo Alegre, in Porto. At the end of 2014, he was selected for RTP Academia 3.0, where he did the photography and editing of the 8-episode program “#Hashtag”, which premiered on the Public National Channel. At the end of 2015 comes the invitation to participate in the production of the film “O Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira e Eu” (2016), by João Botelho, filmed entirely in the city of Porto. In early 2017, already part of the Ar de Filmes production team, he was production assistant for the film “Peregrinação” (2017), by João Botelho and production secretary for the film “Mar” (2018) by Margarida Gil. He was also the main editor of the fiction feature film “O Bêbado”, the latest project by Ar de Filmes, whose premiere is scheduled for 2023. To date, he has independently directed and produced 9 short films. Among the nominations and awards he has already received, he highlights his presence in prestigious film festivals such as CurtaCinema (Brazil), Dresden Film Festival (Germany), Semana de Cine de Lugo (Spain) and ÍCARO (Guatemala).

Known for

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest writers in Portuguese, created an immense parallel world and several heteronyms so as to endure the loneliness of genius. José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has a heteronym, Ricardo Reis, return to Portugal after a 16-year exile in Brazil. 1936 is a perilous year with Mussolini’s fascism, Hitler’s Nazism, Spain’s Civil War and Salazar’s New State in Portugal. And Fernando Pessoa meets his creation, Reis. Two women, Lídia and Marcenda, are Reis’ carnal and impossible passions. “Life and Death as one” allows for literature and cinema.
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

2020

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Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me

“An old photograph taken 36 years ago. His hand rests on my shoulder. A blessing, a gift. Then a history of over four decades of friendship, admiration and apprenticeship. A journey into Oliveira’s cinema, his method, his way of filming and his extraordinary cinematic inventions. He lived for over a century, over a century of cinema, cinema in its entirety. For him, and for me too now, documentary and fiction films go hand in hand; it is all about cinema. So I had the audacity to film a magnificent story that Manoel loved but never filmed, one that he left behind as if his hand and eyes were close to God, or among the gods, and he was steering me.” - João Botelho
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2016

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Sea

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called ‘Hovering Over the Water’.
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The Sea No Longer Stops Here

Caldeira, Sado estuary. A clam picker and his friend spend the morning collecting up the bounty of the tide.
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2020

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I'd Rather Not Say

The day begins with an exchange of favours. An interview, a football game, cigarettes after cigarettes. Routine fragments of those who live in an isolated space which labels and conditions life choices.
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2015

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Mulberryhood

It’s the summer of 2004. Three boys play ball in a parking lot. Two brothers interfere with the game. One ball.
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Mulberryhood

2022

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Orange Yellow

The colors translates the movements of luck and the paths without direction.
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2017

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