Biography

Completed the acting course at EPTC - Cascais Professional Theater School under the direction of Carlos Avilez in 2009. In 2015, he completed the Video and Documentary Film course at the Abrantes School of Technology. Throughout his degree, he took several films to festivals and directed cultural interventions that he wrote and performed with the group "Produções Sem Nome" which he founded in 2009. In 2011 he won the "Young Director" award at the Inatel short film festival with "Adeus Amor". In 2014 he founded Onírico Filmes, having already produced and carried out several projects under that brand. He wrote his first play, "A Saudade Não Chega" in 2014 performed by ACTA - The Professional Theater Company of the Algarve, in September 2015 under the name "O Adeus". He worked as a video editor at Play Harder, OnHD, Ispot Multimedia and Algarve Wedding Films from 2014 to 2018, leading a luxury wedding editing team and editing music videos, commercials, sporting events and short films. In 2015 he completed his first short film outside the university context, "Um Dia" which won some national awards including the one for "Best Fiction Film" at C(h)orta - Faial Short Film Festival. In 2019, he finishes his second short film "Um Portrait of Butterflies" which is selected for international festivals in places like Miami, France and Russia, having won the awards for "Best Short Film", "Best Directed", "Best Actor " and "Best Actress" at the Top Indie Film Awards in Tokyo, Japan. In theater, he worked as an actor with several directors: Luís Vicente, for ACTA - The Algarve Theater Company, Carlos Avilez for the Cascais Experimental Theater, Gil Silva for the ArQuente Association and José Júlio Fonseca at the TUT University Theater, among others . He also has completed workshops with João Mota and John Romão. At the moment, he works as a director and producer of films and advertisements for his brand Onírico Filmes.
- IMDb mini biography by: Henrique Prudêncio