Pedro Costa
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.
Blood
(Director)
Colossal Youth
(Director)
Colossal Youth
(Cinematography)
Colossal Youth
(Writer)
Ossos
(Director)
The Daughters of Fire
(Director)
Change Nothing
(Director)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
(Director)
In Vanda's Room
(Director)
Casa de Lava
(Director)
Memories
(Story)
Memories
(Director)
Historic Centre
(Director of Photography)
Our Man
(Director)
Our Man
(Story)
The State of the World
(Director)
Historic Centre
(Director)
6 Bagatelas
(Director)
Agosto
(Assistant Director)
Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
(Editor)
Horse Money
(Director)
The End of a Love Affair
(Director)
The Rabbit Hunters
(Director)
Sweet Exorcist
(Director)
Sweet Exorcist
(Writer)
Tarrafal
(Director)
In Vanda's Room
(Director of Photography)
A Girl in Summer
(Assistant Director)
Minino macho, Minino fêmea
(Director)
Horse Money
(Writer)
Change Nothing
(Director)
Hovering Over the Water
(Props)
¡Qué vienen los Beatles!
(Director)
¡Qué vienen los Beatles!
(Writer)
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
(Director)
Blood
(Screenplay)
Ossos
(Screenplay)
Vitalina Varela
(Director)
Historic Centre
(Screenplay)
Casa de Lava
(Writer)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
(Director of Photography)
How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras
(Thanks)
The Daughters of Fire
(Screenplay)
Fire of Wind
(Producer)
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
(Director of Photography)
Vitalina Varela
(Screenplay)
In Vanda's Room
(Screenplay)
The End of a Love Affair
(Screenplay)
É Tudo Invenção Nossa
(Director)
Change Nothing
(Cinematography)
A Portuguese Farewell
(Assistant Director)