João Bastos

Movies

1618
Sound Designer
The Inquisition continues the persecution of Portuguese Jews, sending Visitador Sebastião Noronha to the city of Oporto. With his family and community in danger, António Álvares, decides to outline an escape plan.
Bruma
Music
Alice is a 13 year old teenager, curious and with initiative spirit, who lives with her father on an island surrounded by clouds. After her father’s death, Alice isolates herself and is taken on an emotional journey, in which she confronts her fear of life without her father. As soon as Alice overcomes her fear, her horizons open and she gets to know herself, being also ready to know the rest of the world
Gas Flower
Sound
Zé is forced to work from an early age as a fisherman, as so many others did before him, to support his sickly mother. When he leaves to the other side of the river to ask his sister for help, his resolve — even before settings that are indifferent to his misfortune — becomes clear in a poetic way, even if all that is left for him is to continue his journey.
Uma Formiga
Sound Designer
JOSÉ BESSA, an artist who saw his life directed to another path with his wife´s death and the birth of his son, with mental disability, tells us his life story and his ideals. It is a story of love and complicity between a father and a son.