Rui Poças

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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)

  • 2008: Fernando Lopes, Provávelmente (Doc., D: João Lopes )
  • 2008: Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (D: Miguel Gomes)
  • 2008: O Wallpaper Voador (Doc., D: João Mário Grilo )
  • 2009: To die like a Man (Morrer Como Um Homem) (D: João Pedro Rodrigues)
  • 2009: Duas Mulheres (D: João Mário Grilo)
  • 2009: La guitare de diamants (D: Frank Beauvais )
  • 2012: Tabu - A story of love and guilt (D: Miguel Gomes)
  • 2012: O Que Arde Cura (short film, D: João Rui Guerra da Mata )
  • 2012: Manhã de Santo António (short film, D: João Pedro Rodrigues)
  • 2017: The Ornithologist (O ornitólogo) (D: João Pedro Rodrigues)
  • 2017: Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) (D: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra)
  • 2017: Zama (D: Lucrecia Martel )
  • 2019: Frankie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.imdb.com , accessed March 12, 2013
  2. Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema portugués 1989-2003. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2005, p. 481f ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )