Known For
Directing
Born
Dec 30, 1958
Place of Birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Credits
47 titles
Pedro Costa
Biography
Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director. While studying history at University of Lisbon, Costa switched to film courses at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) where he was a student of António Reis, Paulo Rocha and Alberto Seixas Santos. After working as an assistant director to several directors such as Jorge Silva Melo, Vítor Gonçalves and João Botelho, he made a first feature film O Sangue (The Blood) in 1989. He collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) at 2002 Cannes Film Festival for directing the film In Vanda's Room. Colossal Youth was selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008. He is considered to be part of "The School of Reis" film family. António Reis, Portuguese director, was his teacher at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called Pedro Costa "the Samuel Beckett of cinema". He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way in documentary format: some are docufictions.
Known For
Filmography
Fire of Wind
Producer
Repetition in re-creation
Director of Photography
Where do you come from, Silence
Art Direction
The Daughters of Fire
Director
Uncertain Path
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Sound Designer
Vitalina Varela
Director
Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa
Himself
Wiara
Self
How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras
Thanks
Horse Money
Director
Historic Centre
Director of Photography
Sweet Exorcist
Writer
Alto Cutelo
Director
Our Man
Story
Change Nothing
Director
The 13 Roses
Producer
Memories
Director
The State of the World
Director
The Rabbit Hunters
Director
Tarrafal
Director
Colossal Youth
Director
All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director
Minino macho, Minino fêmea
Director
Change Nothing
Director
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Director
The End of a Love Affair
Director
6 Bagatelas
Director
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
Director
In Vanda's Room
Director
História do Cinema Português
Dialogues clandestins 2001
9'8m/s²
Policía 1.
Ossos
Director
Casa de Lava
Director
Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
Editor
Blood
Director
Agosto
Assistant Director
Duma Vez Por Todas
Assistant Director
Letters to Julia
Director
A Girl in Summer
Assistant Director
Hovering Over the Water
Props
A Portuguese Farewell
Assistant Director
É Tudo Invenção Nossa
Director
Manel
Director
Untitled Pedro Costa Musical Film
Director
Finding the Criminal