Pedro Costa

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name = Pedro Costa


birth_date = 1959
birth_place = Lisbon, Portugal
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occupation = Film director and writer
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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]
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