João Viana

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João Viana graduated in law at the university of Coimbra and studied cinema in Porto (1988/1994). He worked in the areas of production, sound, story-board, direction e script-writing. In 2007 he wrote the script Olhos Vermelhos for film-director Paulo Rocha, obtaining the first prize in the contest for feature films of the ICA. He worked with film director like Oliveira, Biette, César Monteiro, Schroeter, José Alvaro, Seixas Santos and technicians like Bonfanti and Joaquim Pinto… He was one of the authors (2005/2007) of the Dicionario de cinema Iberoamericano, in 10 volumes, published by the SGAE, Madrid, and edited by Bénard da Costa of the Cinemateca Portuguesa. He started to direct his own films, with Iana, in 2004 with the film A Piscina (in competition at the Venice Film Festival) “the Portuguese fictional short film that won the most awards ever” (Central de Informação).

Most Popular João Viana Trailers

Total trailers found: 10

If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal Trailer (2013)

10 September 2013

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country.

Our Madness Trailer (2018)

06 December 2018

Ernania is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son, Hanic, and her husband, Pak, who is a soldier of the war.

The Battle of Tabato Trailer (2013)

10 July 2013

Fatu’s father has returned home to Guinea-Bissau from Portugal to attend her wedding. The young woman teaches at the university and her future husband is a well-known musician.

Tabatô Trailer (2014)

01 February 2014

Mutar, who fought in the war, is back in Guinea. In his luggage, he brings strange objects. Fatu, his daughter, takes the opportunity of Mutar's absence to open his bag.

Alfama Trailer (2009)

11 August 2009

A and B get on the train, full of excitement Love and jealousy/Ashes and fire/Pain and sin Just before it leaves, C boards too.

Water to Tabato Trailer (2014)

25 October 2014

In mid-summer 2011, Paulo Carneiro and set out as assistant director for a film crew working on a project on the west African coast.

Madness Trailer (2018)

17 February 2018

Lucy, regarded as crazy, has a son.

O Acordeão Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

João Viana, the crisis of cinema in one minute. On July 2010 the Portuguese Association of Directors challenged the Portuguese directors to do a sixty seconds long film with their own means of production.

The Swimming Pool Trailer (2004)

01 September 2004

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.

Ashes and Embers Trailer (2015)

26 April 2015

Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange alloy of literature and cinema, and not in the way one discipline is a vampire for the other, but rather as if they were the different faces of the same coin, drawn to coexist and repel each other.