Rui Poças
Rui Poças (born December 4, 1966 in Porto ) is a Portuguese cameraman.
Life
After completing his film studies in 1993 at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and international camera seminars in Budapest and A Coruña , he went to the New York Film Academy in 1994 . After a series of work as a camera assistant, Poças was responsible for the camera of a film for the first time in 1995, in Madina de Boé - A Retirada (directors: Manuel Costa e Silva , Manuel Tomás ). Since then he has been a cameraman for a variety of film and video productions, especially short films. He has already received two awards at the Vila do Conde short film festival .
Poças took over the camera for his first full-length feature film in 1998, in Fernando Fragata's Sweet Nightmare . He attracted particular attention with his work for João Pedro Rodrigues , especially his effective light in O Fantasma (2000).
After films like André Valente (D: Catarina Ruivo , 2003) or Odete (D: João Pedro Rodrigues, 2005), Poças' work became internationally known with the award-winning film Tabu - A Story of Love and Guilt (2012, directed by Miguel Gomes ) .
Filmography (selection)
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Web links
- Profile of Rui Poças at AIP, the Association of Portuguese Cinematographers
- Rui Poças in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed March 12, 2013
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema portugués 1989-2003. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2005, p. 481f ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
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SURNAME | Poças, Rui |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Porto , Portugal |