Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa ( born December 30, 1958 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese film director.
Career
He graduated from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema ( ESTC ) and assisted in connecting different directors, including João Botelho 1985 in order Adeus Português, and Joaquim Leitão at vez por todas Duma (One for all times). In 1989 he directed his first feature film, O Sangue ( The Blood ). The black-and-white film is a stirring work on the separation of two brothers after the disappearance of his father, and already shows the next basic theme of creation Costas ', which deals with the standing on the margins of society.
In 1994 he filmed for Casa de Lava ( "House of lava " ) on the Cape Verdean island of Fogo volcano. The film tells the story of an illegal immigrant who is an accident as a construction worker in Lisbon and a Portuguese nurse (played by Inês de Medeiros ) brought in his Cape Verdean home. The work has received numerous awards (including the International Film Festival Thessaloniki Film Festival Entrevues ). During the filming of Costa learned something Cape Verdean Creole, and came to the inhabitants Fogos closer. This gave him a farewell package with which he was handed over to relatives in Lisbon. At its corresponding Visit impressed him the human panorama of unofficial, usually known only as a problem district in Lisbon Portugal Media immigrants Fontaínhas district ( county Amadora ). He turned his next three films there, also known as Fontaínhas trilogy of Bones ( Bone, 1997), No Quarto da Vanda ( In Vanda's Room, 2000) and Juventude em Marcha (Youth progress, 2005). Above all, In Vanda's Room, he turned mainly alone with a hand-held video camera, it won a number of awards, including a FIPRESCI Award and various awards at the Locarno Film Festival and Cannes. The third part, youth progress through the quarter after the demolition of his illegal buildings, convinced the critics ( price of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, nominated for the Palme d'Or ).
In 2001, he turned in two versions, one of them along with Jeanne Lapoirie, a documentary about Danièle Huillet and Jean -Marie Straub ( Où gît votre sourire enfoui? ) For the TV station ARTE. Similar Straub Costa represents a rough, gritty realistic cinema. Costa operates preferably without a fully formulated and distributed to all participants screenplay.
Pedro Costa wrote to all his films, the screenplay, and In Vanda's Room, he also led the camera.