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==Biography==
==Biography==
Pedro Costa é o melhor jogador de Deceit de Portugal continental, alias ele é o melhor amigo do Emanuel mais conhecido como Nera pás babes

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 (film)|Colossal Youth]]'' was selected for the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="cannes-2006.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4360212/year/2006.html|title=Festival de Cannes: Colossal Youth|access-date=2009-12-13|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008.
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 (film)|Colossal Youth]]'' was selected for the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="cannes-2006.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4360212/year/2006.html|title=Festival de Cannes: Colossal Youth|access-date=2009-12-13|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008.


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For other people named Pedro Costa, see Pedro Costa (disambiguation).
Pedro Costa
Born (1958-12-30) 30 December 1958 (age 65)
Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
Lisbon Theatre and Film School
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1984–present

Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958)[1] is a Portuguese film director.

Biography

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[2] and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008.

Style and influences

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".[3] 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.

Filmography

Features

Documentaries and shorts

  • Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2001) (documentary)
  • State of the World (2007) - "Tarrafal" segment (short)
  • Memories (2007) - "The Rabbit Hunters" segment (short)
  • Change Nothing (2009) (documentary)

Plays

See also

References

  1. ^ "Prémios Gulbenkian: Realizador Pedro Costa distinguido na categoria Arte". Jornal de Notícias (in Portuguese). 11 July 2008. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2015. Pedro Costa nasceu em Lisboa, 30 de Dezembro de 1958.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Colossal Youth". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
  3. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (17 September 2009). "Pedro Costa, the Samuel Beckett of cinema". The Guardian.

Further reading

  • Malte Hagener / Tina Kaiser (ed.), Pedro Costa. Film-Konzepte 41 (edition text + kritik, 2016).
  • Fajgenbaum, Emma, Cinema as Disquiet - The Ghostly Realism of Pedro Costa, New Left Review 116, London (June 2019).
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