Miguel Gomes (director)
Miguel Gomes (born 1972 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese film director.
Career
Miguel Gomes completed his film studies from 1996 to 2000 in his hometown of Lisbon. His first short film he produced in 1999 under the title Entretanto ( " now "). At the International Short Film Festival Curtas Vila do Conde, he was awarded in the same year as the best Portuguese director. The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2000, he won the grand prize. By 2002 originated with Inventário de Natal ( " inventory for Christmas ," 2000), 31 (2001) and Kalkitos (2002) three more short films.
In 2004, he presented with A cara que Mereces ( " The face that belongs to you "), his first feature film and was nominated in 2006 for a Globo de Ouro. 2008 Aquele Querido Mes de Agosto appeared ( " That beloved month of August " ), with whom he won the Film Festival in São Paulo, Guadalajara, and Buenos Aires. 2009, the film was honored as the best Portuguese film with the Globo de Ouro. The semi -documentary film shows based on a fictitious film project in the historic slate village Benfeita ( circle Arganil ) the actual Portuguese migrant workers home on leave in August, along with local rural characteristics such as folk festivals. He turned out well at the domestic box office as a surprise success and is still one in April 2012 to the 30 most successful Portuguese films since 2004. He ran on a commercial basis in France, Germany, Brazil, Belgium, Mexico and Argentina.
2012 took Gomes at the Berlinale with Tabu - A story of love and guilt for the official competition for the Golden Bear in part. He used to film numerous allusions to the history of film and tells - mostly black and white images in - from a dying, old Portuguese woman who lived an adventurous love story during the colonial period. Tabu has been honored with the Film Festival with the Alfred Bauer Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize.