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António Costa Valente holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and Technologies from the University of Aveiro. He was a visiting professor at the public universities of Aveiro and Vila Real and director of the Theater and Cinema Department at ESAP – Escola Superior Artística do Porto.
He directs the AVANCA Film Festival since 1997, the scientific conference AVANCA|CINEMA since 2010 and coordinates the “Prémio Eng.º. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador ”, awarded annually to the best academic research on cinema.
He is coordinator of Europe in the “International Federation of Film Societies” and national coordinator of “INPUT-TV”, an international conference that annually brings together public televisions from around the world.
He is co-editor of the “International Journal of Cinema”.
He has produced and directed films that have been distinguished with more than three hundred awards at festivals on all continents. Among them, he produced and co-directed the first feature film of Portuguese animation cinema. He is the author of several books, book chapters and other scientific publications. It has several doctoral and master’s thesis orientations completed. He is a reviewer of several national and international scientific conferences and journals.
Research Interests: Cinema studies; Communication Sciences and Technologies; Art Studies; Artistic expressions.
Latests Publications:
Costa Valente, A. (2020). Viagens pelo Éter, um cinema após 2008. Avanca, Portugal: debatEvolution. ISBN 978-989-54075-7-6
Costa Valente, A. (2020). (des)possível prefácio. In Federico Fellini a inevitabilidade da arte (pp. 7-12). debatEvolution, 7-12. Avanca, Portugal: debatEvolution. ISBN 978-989-54075-6-9
Costa Valente, A. (2019). Entre dois Planos Nacionais – o reduzido cinema português e o grande espaço da literatura (pp.47-59). In Cinema e Outras Artes I: Diálogos e Inquietudes Artísticas. Covilhã, Portugal: Labcom IFP. ISBN: 978-989-654-583-3
Guzmán, N., Lloret, N., Costa Valente, A. (2019). Plataformas de creación colaborativa em el audiovisual. In Avanca Cinema (pp. 859-865). Edições Cineclube de Avanca, 2019. https://doi.org/10.37390/ac.v0i0.80
Most Popular António Costa Valente Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
11 November 2022
Ricardo and Ana are a thirty something couple, chosen to be the subject of a documentary about relationships.
26 October 2013
A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he took advantage of her.
01 March 2025
At the age of 22, Sofia discovers that her father and grandfather belong to the “Order of Idol Makers”.
25 July 2007
Short science-fiction film by José Miguel Moreira.
26 July 2022
On July 6th, 1808, the "Bom Sucesso" caique and 18 fishermen left Olhão, in Portugal, towards Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), taking with them the good news that Portugal was finally free of Napoleon's enemy troops.
25 October 2021
France has more than 200 football clubs of Portuguese origin in its amateur leagues. Famille FC reveals aspects of their origin(s), the relationship with the country left behind and the host country, and the inexplicable stubbornness of being Portuguese.
02 June 2008
The story of a kingdom where everything is forbidden and whose King builds an endless tower in his castle, while the forest, which supplies all materials, is being destroyed.
25 July 2009
A ritual of three decades takes place in a coffee shop. A fortune-telling mother, a distant father and an excessively noisy family.
01 February 2010
We only understand some behaviour when we duplicate them involuntarily.
26 July 2023
Valentine has only one: to go to Luxembourg to see his father. To achieve this, he allies himself with Justino, a wise old man with any answer on the tip of his tongue.
25 February 2018
Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses.
26 July 2022
Vicente was a mean old man, short of words. In his collection, he lacked the pyx of mercy he so admired.
10 July 2019
A shy Portuguese poet and an exuberant English occultist meet up in Lisbon in 1930. When the last one disappears, an English detective begins a thorough investigation: was it a suicide, as reported.
29 March 2009
Cat with no Name is a short 15 minute long film, animated and produced by Antonio Costa Valente and Cineclube de Avanca the financial support of ICA and the executive production of Smarty Cool Studios , directed by Charlie Blue, The short movie was based on a book written by Natércia Rocha known for her great works, the author has left us with a vast collection of children’s literature.
17 August 2021
This film launches the references to the dystopian universe proposed in the SCULP project. The action takes place in a post-capitalist world, where a universal "correct will" determines all human decisions.
19 June 2021
Pedro and Inês, a couple, travel from Lisbon to watch Ovar's Carnaval. They get lost in the swamp of Ria, where they almost run over Teresa, a missing child.
01 July 2010
S. had the gift of feeling the life of nature through her body.