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Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood.
Pedro Costa is a filmmaker who makes low-budget documentaries with non-professional actors in Lisbon. He is known for his films Horse Money, Vitalina Varela and Colossal Youth, among others.
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- 1.83 m
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Director, Writer, Cinematographer
Pedro Costa is a key member of the 1990’s generation of filmmakers from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). A singular case in the last thirty years of...
Mar 10, 2010 · Portuguese director Pedro Costa shares his favorite films by Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati, Yasujiro Ozu, and more. See his list and learn about his own works available from Criterion.
Jan 25, 2020 · Masterclass: Pedro Costa | IFFR 2020. International Film Festival Rotterdam. 150K subscribers. Subscribed. 990. 43K views 4 years ago. The Portuguese director of Vitalina Varela tells the...
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- International Film Festival Rotterdam
Dec 30, 2019 · Throughout his career, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa has moved almost exclusively along a single trajectory, creating a hermetically sealed universe inspired by the marginalised residents of Fontainhas, a now-demolished shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon.
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Mar 30, 2010 · Explore the work of Portuguese director Pedro Costa, who filmed a community of subproletarians and Cape Verdean immigrants in a Lisbon neighborhood that no longer exists. Discover how he reinvented his art, found his own light, and captured the truth of his characters in Ossos, In Vanda's Room, and Colossal Youth.
