Trivia

On June 2018, The Paris Court of Appeal declares a former contract between Terry Gilliam and Paulo Branco as valid and orders the director to pay EUR10,000 in fees to Branco's company. However the ruling doesn't specify that the rights of "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" belong to Branco. In an official statement, the film producer Mariela Besuievsky declared : "We have the rights of 'Don Quixote' and it will be released all over the world.".

Founder of production company Madragoa Filmes (Portugal) .

Founder of production company Gemini Films (France) .

Founder of production company Spider Pictures (England).

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival in 2006.

Specializing in the bankruptcy of his production companies according to the director Danielle Dubroux.

One of the oldest independent producers in Europe. CEO of many companies between Lisbon, Paris and Switzerland.

He never read a script of his life. He is often advised by writers and critics around him.

Father of Juan Branco, leftist lawyer, active support and advisor to the former socialist president François Hollande.

He is considered the man of a time, that of the cinema "art & essai" of the 80s and 90s.

In June 2019, the court for Intellectual Property in Portugal denied rights on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to Paulo Branco and his company, concluding that he was neither a producer or a creator of it.

In October 2019, Paulo Branco was sentenced by French court to pay 60,000 euros in compensation to the french distributors of "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" and was officially denied any rights over the film, the verdict stating that his society Alfama Films could not be considered producer of the film nor mandated for international sales.

Brother of Isabel Branco. Uncle of writer João Tordo.