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João Pedro Rodrigues

João Pedro Rodrigues (Lisbon, Portugal, 1966) debuted in 1997 with the short film Parabéns!. The feature O Fantasma was in competition in Venice in 2000, and Odete received a special mention in Cannes in 2005. He participated at the 30th Torino Film Festival with the short film Manhã de Santo António, and won the Internazionale.doc section with A Última Vez Que Vi Macau (2012), which he directed with João Rui Guerra da Mata. With the same codirector Rodrigues also directed the short Mahjong (2013), selected at the Festival in Waves section. In 2016 he directed O Ornitólogo, also presented at the TFF after being in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2022 he directed another feature, Fogo-Fátuo, presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, before participating again in Locarno with Onde Fica Esta Rua? Ou Sem Antes Nem Depois, also directed with Guerra da Mata.

FILMOGRAFIA

O Pastor (cm, 1988), Esta É a Minha Casa (mm, doc., 1997), Parabéns! (cm, 1997), Viagem à Expo (mm, doc., 1998), O Fantasma (Il fantasma, 2000), Odete (2005), China, China (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, cm, 2007), Morrer Como um Homem (2009), Alvorada Vermelha (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, cm, 2011), Manhã de Santo António (cm, 2012), A Última Vez Que Vi Macau (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, doc., 2012), O Corpo de Afonso (cm, 2013), Mahjong (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, cm, 2013), O Ornitólogo (2016), Où en êtes-vous, João Pedro Rodrigues? (cm, doc, 2017), 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing (cm, 2019), Um Quarto na Cidade (cm, doc, 2021), Fogo-Fátuo (2022), Onde Fica Esta Rua? (coregia João Rui Guerra da Mata, doc, 2022).

João Rui Guerra da Mata

(Portugal) started working in the movie industry as an actor, screenwriter, and assistant director for Rodrigues. Later he co-directed with Rodrigues China, China, awarded for best short at the Belfort Film Festival. He participated in the 30th Turin Film Festival with the short O Que Arde Cura, again directed with Rodrigues himself, with whom he subsequently shot A Última Vez que Vi Macau, winner for Best Film in the international documentary section at TFF, and the short Mahjong, also presented in Turin. The two directors signed another short, Um Quarto na Cidade (2021), and then Onde Fica Esta Rua?, presented at Locarno. They also collaborated on the screenplay for Fogo-Fátuo (2022), directed by Rodrigues alone.

FILMOGRAFIA

China, China (coregia João Pedro Rodrigues, cm, 2007), Alvorada Vermelha (cm, doc, 2011), O Que Arde Cura (coregia João Pedro Rodrigues, cm, 2012), A Última Vez Que Vi Macau (coregia João Pedro Rodrigues, doc, 2012), Mahjong (coregia João Pedro Rodrigues, cm, 2013), IEC Long (cm, doc, 2015), Um Quarto na Cidade (coregia João Pedro Rodrigues, cm, doc, 2021), Onde Fica Esta Rua? (coregia João Pedro Rodrigues, doc, 2022).