Luís Costa
Birth : , Porto, Portugal
History
Luís Costa (1993) was born in Porto, Portugal. In 2014 he obtained his bachelor degree in Sound and Image, at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto. As a young director, he worked on several projects in the audiovisual area, and his two academic short films were recognised in several national and international festivals. He has also develops parallel projects on photography and videoclips, among others. He co-founded and works as a director at Pinehouse Concerts. In 2017, 'The Everlasting Man' premiered and was recognised with the Sophia award for best documentary short film by the Portuguese Film Academy. 'Our Kingdom', his latest short film based on the novel by Valter Hugo Mãe, is currently in distribuition and won several awards. Recently, he co-founded a film production company in Porto, in which he is developing several projects in different positions, from production to script writing. Currently, he is post-producing his two next short films, making a documentary series on photography and writing his first feature film.
Writer
The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.
Producer
The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.
Director
The story of Caveirinha, a humble fisherman who lives in a difficult social situation. Immediately after the death of his son at sea, he faces the challenge of burying him with dignity.
Producer
What do you do with the desire that is just awakening? At dance performances, in concerts, during sports, while skating, eyes are searching and bodies are exposed. Each space possesses its own choreography, its own music. Almost without words desire and rejection, hope and disappointment become tangible.
Screenplay
What do you do with the desire that is just awakening? At dance performances, in concerts, during sports, while skating, eyes are searching and bodies are exposed. Each space possesses its own choreography, its own music. Almost without words desire and rejection, hope and disappointment become tangible.
Director of Photography
There is a village in the mountain and a house in the village, where Ema repeats gestures and tasks: she takes care of her grandmother, walks, reads, waits. Until one day the cycle breaks: what happened in the mountain house?
Dialogue
In a village where time and space run out, a child dwells in the death vortex.
Writer
In a village where time and space run out, a child dwells in the death vortex.
Director
In a village where time and space run out, a child dwells in the death vortex.
Color Grading
Over the dark and barren landscapes of a city somewhere in the Arctic Circle, we hear the story of a man who dreamed he was a woman, an oneiric reverie that allows him to be in two opposite places at the same time. It is a beautiful metaphor, as well as a eulogy, about accepting what seems illogical, instead of looking for meaning, one that finds comfort in the darkness and restlessness that disturbs sleep, turning it into a space for the subconscious to rise
Editor
And then, a house will appear to be waiting you: as in a slope, this is a leaning story on the memory of places and things, on returns and new beginnings.
Colorist
And then, a house will appear to be waiting you: as in a slope, this is a leaning story on the memory of places and things, on returns and new beginnings.
Editor
Bernardino Fernandes emigrated to Canada in the sixties. Over two decades he filmed hundreds of Super 8 reels, organizing them methodically and obsessively. The Everlasting Man ends an old process, transforming Bernardino's urge of cinema into a film about the images of his memory.
Director
Bernardino Fernandes emigrated to Canada in the sixties. Over two decades he filmed hundreds of Super 8 reels, organizing them methodically and obsessively. The Everlasting Man ends an old process, transforming Bernardino's urge of cinema into a film about the images of his memory.
Screenplay
A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.
Director
A man from a village in the interior of portugal is back to visit the family that is left. But the true reasons for his return are not clear.
Cinematography
Fontelonga is a village of Trás-os-Montes, in the interior of Portugal. A mirror of exile in the eyes of their own people. A reflexion where memory is the last object of beauty and redemption.
Director
Fontelonga is a village of Trás-os-Montes, in the interior of Portugal. A mirror of exile in the eyes of their own people. A reflexion where memory is the last object of beauty and redemption.
Screenplay
New film by Luís Costa, based on the novel 'Grito' by Rui Nunes.
Producer
New film by Luís Costa, based on the novel 'Grito' by Rui Nunes.
Director
New film by Luís Costa, based on the novel 'Grito' by Rui Nunes.
