Pedro Neves Trailers
Time Takes a Cigarette TrailerThe Melusinas at the Edge of the River TrailerLucefece: Where there is no vision, the people will perish Trailer
Pedro Neves is a Portuguese filmmaker born in Leiria in 1977. He graduated in Communication Science, did a post graduate course in Documentary (2002) and a masters in Culture and Communications, specializing in Documentary, where he wrote a dissertation about the documentation of the April Revolutionary years, in Porto University. He is a free-lance journalist since 1999. He collaborates with the Expresso newspaper, where he has and does develop various reports for the paper edition and several short film documentaries for the multimedia site. In 2007 he attended a course on documentary direction in the International School of Cinema and Television in San António de Los Banõs, in Cuba. In 2007 he directed his first documentary entitled "Gazing at the sea" (a olhar o mar - Portugal) and he won the public prize from the Festival of Cinema and Video in Vancouver, Canada. The same year, he co-directed a short-film documentary "In the Barber's" (En la Barberia - Cuba), shown in several international festivals. He Directed eight short film documentaries in black and white for Expresso Multimedia which form the work "Poverty in Porto" (Pobreza no Porto). In 2008 he founded an audio visual company (with Carlos Ruiz) called Red Desert. In 2009 he directed the documentary "The Forgotten" (awarded in International Festival Extremadoc, in Spain) and presented in Fantasporto (PT), Doclisboa (PT). In the same year he edited Roots, by Carlos Ruiz, which was the best film in Independent Film Festival Bragacine (PT) and in the International Festival Filminho (PT). In 2010 he directed the documentary Disagreements, presented in Panorama do Documentário Português (PT). In 2011 he directed the short documentary "Cold Water", presented so far in Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Fest (PT), DocLisboa (PT), Shortcutz Porto (PT), Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da feira (PT), Panorama do Documentário Português (PT), Curtas Belo Horizonte International Film Fest (BR), in the international Competition of Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, International Film Festival of Guadalajara (Mexico), Mecal Short Film Fest fo Barcelona - Special Mention - (Spain), Regard Sur le Court Métrage (Quebec, Canada), Filmets Badalona International Short Film Festival (Spain) - Europa Award, Documenta Madrid - Special Mention of the Juri (Spain), Martil Film Festival - Special Mention of the Juri (Marocco), Lupa Documentary Festival (Basque Country), Curtdoc Girona (ES), Extreme Shorts (KR) and Leiria Film Fest - Best Documentary and Best Director (PT). The film has also exhibited in the portuguese national public television RTP, in the international french channel Canal Plus France and Canal Plus Afrique, in the cable portuguese channel Porto Canal and in the cable portuguese channel TVCINE HD 2. His last feature documentary is a feature titled "The Desert's Fox" about a fisherman that is the only inhabitant of Deserta Island, in Portugal (exhibited in RTP). In 2014 he directed, with the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the short documentary "Inn". "Above Our Means" (43') is his last documentary.
Most Popular Pedro Neves Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
10 June 2014
An old hostel, located in the center of Porto, served for many years as a hostel for people with few possessions, prostitutes and people passing through who made that place a more or less prolonged residence.
01 January 2014
A look at how the Troika's austerity programme for Portugal affected the lives of millions.
20 October 2023
Shot in film and hand processed by the director for over 20 years, Lucefece mixes personal, political and mythical views on reality exorcizing old ghosts.
08 July 2019
The sound was deafening. The noise of the machines, the steps, the daily hustle of the more than a thousand workers, entering and leaving the shifts.
29 November 2018
In a remote village called Bostofrio, a young filmmaker breaks the law of silence in order to unearth the story of his grandfather.
07 June 2013
A double portrait of the General Strike on November 24th, 2010, at the Allies Avenue in Porto, Portugal.
24 November 2018
Everything came up with this defiant idea: what if a director followed the first person to come through the door of his house? Luís Vieira Campos did this and found Geni, a strong woman who dreamt of opening her own store at Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, a mythical place of Porto.
21 October 2008
They are hidden cases behind barriers, windows and closed doors, rusted gates, walls that fall apart and ceilings that don´t exist.
05 October 2014
Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.
01 January 2011
Disillusionment helps the feet enter the cold water. It is like a whisper indifferent to the distorted music that echoes round the beach.
29 November 2016
One day almost everything turned into a pile of rubble and bush. There remained ghosts wandering through the fields, the ruins and the fog.
23 October 2023
As she goes through hills and rivers looking for Melusina, a mutant and legendary mermaid from the city of Luxembourg, where she grew up, the director talks to four women about their uncertain identities: what it is like to be an immigrant without being one, and to be a Luxembourgish without being one.
01 January 2006
Feature film by Pedro Neves.
10 March 2015
This is the incredible story of the only inhabitant of the Desert Island, in the Algarve. Fernando Alves, 66, the Hemingway mustache, is a fisherman, a cook, a communicator and an inventor.
08 July 2023
The road to Inhaminga, in Mozambique, is populated by ghosts that wander in the dark. The bullets fell silent almost half a century ago, but I can still hear their echo.
24 October 2016
In The Beach, the elderly return to active life, leave the spaces of suffering and loneliness to which they have sadly been inhabiting in contemporary societies.
03 December 2015
Almost 30% of the population of Porto lives in council districts. It is a special experience when districts become small towns with their own customs and traditions.
14 July 2018
It's an ordinary day. Ships sail off, people stay ashore waiting. Something unexpected occurs. A ship collides with a small boat, which capsizes after being hit by a wave.
25 November 2023
In the late 70s and early 80s in the city of Porto, concerts by Rock and Punk bands began to appear. April 25, 1974, which put an end to the longest dictatorship in Europe, brought political and creative freedom.
