Pedro Neves

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Pedro Neves is a Portuguese filmmaker born in Leiria in 1977. He graduated in Communication Science, did a post graduate course in Documentary (2002) and a masters in Culture and Communications, specializing in Documentary, where he wrote a dissertation about the documentation of the April Revolutionary years, in Porto University. He is a free-lance journalist since 1999. He collaborates with the Expresso newspaper, where he has and does develop various reports for the paper edition and several short film documentaries for the multimedia site. In 2007 he attended a course on documentary direction in the International School of Cinema and Television in San António de Los Banõs, in Cuba. In 2007 he directed his first documentary entitled "Gazing at the sea" (a olhar o mar - Portugal) and he won the public prize from the Festival of Cinema and Video in Vancouver, Canada. The same year, he co-directed a short-film documentary "In the Barber's" (En la Barberia - Cuba), shown in several international festivals. He Directed eight short film documentaries in black and white for Expresso Multimedia which form the work "Poverty in Porto" (Pobreza no Porto). In 2008 he founded an audio visual company (with Carlos Ruiz) called Red Desert. In 2009 he directed the documentary "The Forgotten" (awarded in International Festival Extremadoc, in Spain) and presented in Fantasporto (PT), Doclisboa (PT). In the same year he edited Roots, by Carlos Ruiz, which was the best film in Independent Film Festival Bragacine (PT) and in the International Festival Filminho (PT). In 2010 he directed the documentary Disagreements, presented in Panorama do Documentário Português (PT). In 2011 he directed the short documentary "Cold Water", presented so far in Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Fest (PT), DocLisboa (PT), Shortcutz Porto (PT), Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da feira (PT), Panorama do Documentário Português (PT), Curtas Belo Horizonte International Film Fest (BR), in the international Competition of Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, International Film Festival of Guadalajara (Mexico), Mecal Short Film Fest fo Barcelona - Special Mention - (Spain), Regard Sur le Court Métrage (Quebec, Canada), Filmets Badalona International Short Film Festival (Spain) - Europa Award, Documenta Madrid - Special Mention of the Juri (Spain), Martil Film Festival - Special Mention of the Juri (Marocco), Lupa Documentary Festival (Basque Country), Curtdoc Girona (ES), Extreme Shorts (KR) and Leiria Film Fest - Best Documentary and Best Director (PT). The film has also exhibited in the portuguese national public television RTP, in the international french channel Canal Plus France and Canal Plus Afrique, in the cable portuguese channel Porto Canal and in the cable portuguese channel TVCINE HD 2. His last feature documentary is a feature titled "The Desert's Fox" about a fisherman that is the only inhabitant of Deserta Island, in Portugal (exhibited in RTP). In 2014 he directed, with the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the short documentary "Inn". "Above Our Means" (43') is his last documentary.

01-01-1977

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Capricorn

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Total Films

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Leiria, Portugal

Place of Birth

01-01-1977

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Leiria, Portugal

Place of Birth

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producer

8 Works

director

34 Works

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4 Works

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13 Works

Time Takes a Cigarette

In the late 70s and early 80s in the city of Porto, concerts by Rock and Punk bands began to appear. April 25, 1974, which put an end to the longest dictatorship in Europe, brought political and creative freedom. Through a series of tableaux vivants based on photos from an era covered with a nostalgic aura, but employing contemporary mannequins, the film revives some loud narrations of those crazy times, which failed to reach our ears.

0.0

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2023

The Melusinas at the Edge of the River

As she goes through hills and rivers looking for Melusina, a mutant and legendary mermaid from the city of Luxembourg, where she grew up, the director talks to four women about their uncertain identities: what it is like to be an immigrant without being one, and to be a Luxembourgish without being one. A journey through memory in rainy weather. A search for ever-fragmented identities. An uncertain attempt at reconciliation. The memory of emigration from a contemporary perspective of a generation with a radically different relation to territories and displacements.

0.0

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2023

Lucefece: Where there is no vision, the people will perish

Shot in film and hand processed by the director for over 20 years, Lucefece mixes personal, political and mythical views on reality exorcizing old ghosts. Stories from the director's childhood, together with conversations with his father, that fought in the colonial war in Africa and later was arrested, prepare the scenario for a profound reflexion on today's world. The film spirals like a snake travelling through time, an eternal recurrence, mixing documentary with film essay and autobiographical tones.

7.0

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2023

Bostofrio

In a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather. A series of awkward and funny interviews that reveal the secrets and half truths that are the fabric of rural Portugal.

5.3

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2018

Geni

Everything came up with this defiant idea: what if a director followed the first person to come through the door of his house? Luís Vieira Campos did this and found Geni, a strong woman who dreamt of opening her own store at Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, a mythical place of Porto. Between advances and retreats, between the increasing opening of the director and his character, the film reveals the unique portrait of a woman, a neighbourhood - Cedofeita - and the improbable relationships we establish when we least expect it. Luís Vieira Campos proves, with Geni, that cinema is also the "neighbourhood" and its people.

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2018

Tarrafal

One day almost everything turned into a pile of rubble and bush. There remained ghosts wandering through the fields, the ruins and the fog. Some of these ghosts are alive. They are those who stayed, those who came back, those who roam the difficult memories of the most cursed neighborhood of the city. Only that this Tarrafal, the name of the field of slow death of Salazar's dictatorship, is not in Cape Verde but in Portugal.

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2016

Love Film Festival

Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.

7.5

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2014

Above our Means

A look at how the Troika's austerity programme for Portugal affected the lives of millions.

8.0

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2014