João Pedro Rodrigues (born 24 August 1966) is a Portuguese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...

. He is considered to be part of ''

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'' film family.

Career

Having studied at the

School of Theatre and Cinema The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (''Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema'') of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the ...

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, Rodrigues started his career as an assistant director and editor in several features, directed, for example, by

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and Teresa Villaverde, among others. In 1997 Rodrigues directed his first film. ''

O Fantasma ''O Fantasma'' (English: ''The Phantom'' or ''The Ghost'') is a 2000 Portuguese erotic drama film directed by João Pedro Rodrigues (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by the independent production company Rosa Filmes. Premise Young ...

(Phantom)'' (2000). Apart from the minor controversy it generated in Portugal, the film was shown in Spain, Italy, France,

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and the United States with modest results. ''

Two Drifters ''Two Drifters'' (also known as ''Odete'') is a Portuguese feature film directed by João Pedro Rodrigues, produced at the independent production company Rosa Filmes and released in 2005. Reception * Cannes Film Festival, 2005 – Méntion Spéc ...

'' (2005), his second feature film, has garnered relative international acclaim and was shown at the

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films ...

. His features have been produced and released by the production company Rosa Filmes.

Personal life

He is openly gay.

Filmography

* 1988 - ''O Pastor'' * 1997 - ''Happy Birthday! (Parabéns!)'' * 1997 - ''Esta é a Minha Casa'' * 1998 - ''A Trip to the Expo (Viagem à Expo)'' * 2000 - ''

'' * 2005 - ''

(Odete)'' * 2007 - ''China China'' * 2009 - '' To Die Like a Man (Morrer Como Um Homem)'' * 2011 - ''Red Dawn (Alvorada Vermelha)'' * 2012 - ''Manhã de Santo António'' * 2012 - '' The Last Time I Saw Macao (A Última Vez Que Vi Macau)'' * 2012 - ''The King's Body (O Corpo de Afonso)'' * 2013 - ''Mahjong'' * 2016 - '' The Ornithologist (O Ornitólogo)'' * 2016 - ''Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues? (Où en êtes-vous, João Pedro Rodrigues?)'' * 2022 - ''

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(Fogo-Fátuo)''

References

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