Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa

Infobox Person
name = Pedro Costa


birth_date = 1959
birth_place = Lisbon, Portugal
nationality =
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = Film director and writer
known_for =
salary =
networth =
spouse =
website =
footnotes =
children =

Pedro Costa (born 1959) is a Portuguese film director.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 the socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way that makes them resemble documentaries.

While studying history at University of Lisbon, Costa switched to film courses at School of Theatre and Cinema (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). After working as an assistant director to several directors such as Jorge Silva Melo 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 International Film Festival for directing the film "No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room)". "Juventude em Marcha" ("Youth on the March", known as "Colossal Youth" in Anglophone countries, and "En avant, jeunesse" — "Onward, Youth" — in Francophone countries) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Assossiation) in 2008.

Filmography

*"O Sangue (The Blood)" (1989)
*"Casa de Lava (Down to Earth)" (1995)
*"Ossos (Bones)" (1997)
*"No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room)" (2000)
*"Danièle Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub: Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Filmmakers - Where has your hidden smile gone?)" (2001)
*"Juventude em Marcha (Colossal Youth)" (2006)

External links

* [http://www.rouge.com.au/10/costa_seminar.html Pedro Costa, "A Closed Door That Leaves Us Guessing" - Transcript of three days of lectures by Costa on cinema, delivered in Tokyo in March 2004, Rouge]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/07/43/costa-straub-huillet.html Tag Gallagher, "Straub Anti-Straub"(Analysis of Costa's oeuvre and its interactions with the canon of Straub and Huillet), senses of cinema.com]
* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:86019 Pedro Costa] at Allmovie
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=86019 New York Times]
*Imdb name|id=0182276


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Pedro Costa — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Pedro Costa Nombre real Pedro Costa Nacimiento 3 de marzo de 1959 (50 años) Lisboa, Po …   Wikipedia Español

  • Pedro Costa — (* 20. November 1977) ist ein portugiesischer Radrennfahrer. Pedro Costa begann seine Karriere im Jahr 2000 bei dem portugiesischen Radsportteam Barbot Torrie. In seinemersten Jahr gewann er zwei Etappen bei der Volta ao Portugal Futuro und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Pedro Costa — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Costa. Pedro Costa Données clés Naissance 3 mars 1959 Lisbonne …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Pedro Costa (footballer) — Pedro Costa fullname Pedro Miguel Castro Brandão Costa is a Portuguese football right back (born in Arouca, Portugal on 21 11 1981) currently playing for Académica Coimbra in Portugal. CareerCosta is a product of the SC Braga youth system. Having …   Wikipedia

  • San Pedro (Costa de Marfil) — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda San Pedro es una ciudad de Costa de Marfil. Es la capital del departamento de San Pedro y de la región Bas Sassandra. Con más de 130.000 habitantes, incluye el segundo puerto marítimo del país. Además es conocido por …   Wikipedia Español

  • Pedro — or the archaic Pêro is the Spanish and Portuguese version of the name Peter , derived from the word Petros (Greek for rock, from πέτρα or Petra , a translation of the Aramaic Kephas or Cephas ), through the Latin Petrus .Pedro may refer to a… …   Wikipedia

  • Costa (Familienname) — Costa ist ein italienischer, portugiesischer und spanischer Familienname folgender Personen: Inhaltsverzeichnis A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Pedro Hestnes — (* 1962; † 20. Juni 2011 in Lissabon) war ein portugiesischer Schauspieler. Hestnes war ab Ende der 1980er Jahre in einigen der bekanntesten Filme Portugals zu sehen, darunter O Sangue (1989) von Pedro Costa und Xavier (1992) von Manuel Mozos.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • San Pedro, Costa Rica — San Pedro is the capital of Montes de Oca Canton in the San José Province. It is home to the University of Costa Rica as well as other institutions of higher learning …   Wikipedia

  • Costa — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Costa », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Costa est la racine latine du mot côte. Le mot… …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”