Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 19, 1984
Place of Birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Credits
31 titles
João Salaviza
Biography
João Salaviza (Portuguese: João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; born 19 February 1984; Lisbon) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and former actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including the Short Film Golden Bear, the Short Film Palme d'Or, and the Un Certain Regard. João Salaviza was born on 19 February 1984, in Lisbon, Portugal. His father is José Edgar Feldman, a film director, and his mother is a producer. He studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His film Arena won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, his film Rafa won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Salaviza worked as assistant editor in Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.
Known For
Filmography
The French Teacher
Co-Producer
To Our Friends
Producer
The Messenger
Editor
The Buriti Flower
Story
Ketwajê
Producer
The Dead and the Others
Director
Russa
Director
Elon Doesn't Believe in Death
Screenplay
High Cities of Bone
Editor
In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
Self
Mountain
Director
Cerro Negro
Director
Rafa
Director
A Portuguese Film
Himself
Strokkur
Director
Casa Na Comporta
Writer
Hotel Müller
Director
Arena
Director
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Assistant Editor
Dedicated To The One I Love
Editor
The Summer of Rita M.
Editor
Two People
Director
Lumiar
Assistant Director
Querença
Zé Manel
When It Thunders
Da Invicta ao Sonoro
L'Enfant du secret
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
Sozinhos em Casa
Regards d'enfance
Poor George
Nuno - Jorge's Nephew