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| Areas of Expertise | Director – Producer – Cinematographer – Editor |
| Favorite Books | Aldous Huxley, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Álvaro Cunhal, José Saramago, Fernando Pessoa, Noam Chomsky, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Frank Donald Drake, Stephen Hawkings, Albert Einstein, Michio Kaku, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, H. G. Wells, Anthony Burgess, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dante Alighieri, Jules Verne, William Shakespeare, Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Albert Hofmann, Isaac Asimov, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, Ken Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Timothy Leary, George Carlin, David Icke |
| Favorite Bands / Musician | Billy Idol, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Camel, Carlos Santana, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Erick Morillo, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Iggy Pop, James Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Krzysztof Komeda, Lou Reed, Madness, Manu Chao, Moby, Nico, Pink Floyd, Prodigy, Queen, R.E.M., Rod Stewart, Sérgio Godinho, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Soft Machine, Supertramp, Talking Heads, Tears For Fears, The B-52's, The Beatles, The Cure, The Doors, The Kinks, The Police, The Proclaimers, The Psychedelic Furs, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Vangelis, Velvet Underground, Zeca Afonso |
| Favorite Movies | 12 Angry Men, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 8 1/2, A Clockwork Orange, A Fistful of Dollars, A Fistful of Dynamite, A Woman Under the Influence, Aguirre der Zom Gottes, Amadeus, America Undercover, American Graffiti, American Movie, Aparajito, Avatar, Back to the Future (I/II/III), Bad Taste, Baraka, Barry Lyndon, Battleship Potemkin, Being John Malkovich, Being There, Blade Runner, Blowup, Blue Velvet, Bonnie and Clyde, Borat, Bowling for Columbine, Braindead, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Breathless, Buffalo 66, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cape Fear (1992), Carrie, Cinema Paradiso, Citizen Kane, Clerks, Cobra Verde, Comandante, Crumb, Cube, Dirty Harry, Dog Day Afternoon, Dr.Strangelove, Downfall, Dracula (1992), Dressed to Kill, Duck Soup, East of Eden, Easy Rider, Edward Scissorhands, Endgame, Eraserhead, Eyes Wide Shut, Fahrenheit 9/11, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fitzcarraldo, For a Few Dollars More, Friday The 13th, Full Metal Jacket, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ghostbusters, Goldfinger, Gone with the Wind, Grass: The History of Weed, Grease, Groundhog Day, Gulliver's Travels (1996), Hair, Halloween, Heavenly Creatures, High Plains Drifter, If…., Il Postino, Irreversible, Jack The Ripper (1988), Jaws, Jurassic Park, Knife in the Water, Kramer vs. Kramer, La Dolce Vita, La Planète Sauvage, La Rivière du Hibou, La Strada, Le Mépris, Léon, Life is Beautiful, Life of Brian, Little Big Man, Lolita (1962), Loose Change, Lord of the Rings (I/II/III), Marathon Man, Meet Me in St.Louis, Meet The Fockers, Meet the Parents, Memento, Midnight Cowboy, Midnight Express, Misery, Mondo Cane, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Best Friend, My Left Foot, Network, North by Northwest, Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens, O Leão da Estrela, October, Oldboy, Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pan's Labyrinth, Papillon, Pather Panchali, Paths of Glory, Perfume: Story of a Murderer, Persona, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Pierrot le fou, Planet of the Apes (1968), Poltergeist, Porky's (I/II), Psycho (1960), Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Rebel Without a Cause, Religulous, Repulsion, Reservoir Dogs, Rome: Open City, Rosemary's Baby, Salò o le 120 Giornate di Sodoma, Saturday Night Fever, Scarface (1983), Shadow of a Doubt, Shaft (1971), Sicko, Sleepy Hollow, Sleuth (1972), Snatch, Some Like It Hot, Star Wars (IV/V/VI), Strangers on a Train, Straw Dogs, Strike, Stroszek, Sunset Blvd., Taxi Driver, The African Queen, The Apartment, The Bicycle Thief, The Big Lebowski, The Birds, The Deer Hunter, The Elephant Man, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Fly (1986), The Fog (1980), The Godfather (I/II/III), The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Graduate, The Great Dictator, The Holy Mountain, The King of Comedy, The Last Detail, The Last King of Scotland, The London Nobody Knows, The Matrix, The Meaning of Life, The Monastery, The New Rulers of the World, The Ninth Gate, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Pianist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Seventh Seal, The Shining, The Sixth Sense, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Thing (1982), The Truman Show, The War On Democracy, The Witches of Eastwick, The Wizard of Oz, Thelma & Louise, This is Spinal Tap, Three Days of the Condor, Trainspotting, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Ugly Dirty and Bad, Unforgiven, Vertigo, Vivre Sa Vie, Weekend, Welcome, When Harry Met Sally, Wild Strawberries, Woodstock, Woyzeck, Zeitgeist |
| Favorite TV Shows | Alfred Hitchcock Presents, All in the Family, 'Allo 'Allo!, Aqua Teen, Cheers, Da Ali G Show, Family Guy, Kenny vs. Spenny, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Night Gallery, Sin Cities, South Park, The Office, The Outer Limits, The Royle Family, The Simpsons, The Twilight Zone |
| Comments and Things Worth Noting | He began university at Universidade Moderna Lisboa enrolling in the Cinema and Television course. Determined to expand his horizons he went to Denmark where he graduated from The European Film College. Upon graduating he went back to Portugal, where he directed his first independent work. Two feature length documentaries followed, in which he did both cinematography and editing, the latest took him for more than once to California where he edited a total of three feature length documentaries. It was also in California that he did the cinematography for a documentary series, a project which got him to know the state as few have the chance to. He eventually invited his former colleagues Kris Skovmand and Samuel Anderson to move to Portugal from their native countries, Denmark and USA respectively, and start a production company named Skookum Films. With the company he did the short film The Headless Nun, an international collaboration narrated by Patrick Carlin, George Carlin's brother, and featuring a song by Frank Zappa. He also directed an experimental music short film starring the New York duo Tribal Baroque, formed by musicians Thoth and Lila Angelique. He then began the first partnership with the actor João Craveiro, directing the short film Bílis Negra. He was then invited to edit the short film Passagens by Maria Emília de Azevedo in Florianópolis, Brazil. It was there that he directed the Brazilian-Portuguese short film A Lagoa produced by Maria Emília de Azevedo. That same year he went back to Portugal where he shot a science fiction short film which he wrote and directed, Earth 2084, starring Fernando Luís. He has also been a guest speaker and film festival jury in different occasions. His films have been shown in over 100 festivals from all continents and have been awarded several different awards. He presently works on his new projects, keeping his philosophy that in both art and the world, there are no boundaries. |
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