João Nuno Pinto

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João Nuno Pinto (* 1969 in Mozambique ) is a Portuguese film director .

Life

Pinto was born in 1969 in what was then the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. In the course of Mozambique's independence in 1975, he came to Portugal at the age of six. After studying graphics in Portugal, he studied film at the New York Film Academy .

After making a first short film in 2008, he made his first full-length feature film, América , in 2010 . The ones from Good Bye Lenin! well-known Chulpan Khamatova played the main female role. The popular Raul Solnado appeared in a supporting role for the last time in front of the camera, he died after the shooting, before the final cut of the film.

América , already released on DVD in Portugal in 2011, made Pinto famous. The film won an award at the Caminhos do Cinema Português film festival in 2011 and was awarded at the Globos de Ouro 2012 . In addition, it was the Portuguese film selected for the European Film Prize 2011 and was screened at numerous international film festivals, in Germany at the Cottbus Film Festival .

Filmography

  • 2008: Skype me (short film)
  • 2010: America

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.festivalscope.com , accessed January 10, 2013
  2. ↑ www.cinema.sapo.pt ( Memento of the original dated December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 10, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.sapo.pt
personal data
SURNAME Pinto, João Nuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mozambique