José Filipe Costa

José Filipe Costa

Biography

José Filipe Costa directed fiction shorts and feature documentaries that premiered at Cinéma du réel and the Viennale and were broadcast on RTP, Futura Brasil and ZDF/ARTE. Feature doc Linha Vermelha won Best Portuguese Film at IndieLisboa 2011. Costa is a film professor in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro and published the book Power to the Cinema! (2002). He works as a scriptwriter for film and TV.

Locarno Festival

Director

Movies
2019

A Pleasure, Comrades!

Documentaries
2023

Uma História do Espectador de Cinema

2012

Linha Vermelha

2003

Entre Muros

Short
2017

The Case of J.

2009

A Rua

2006

Domingo

2004

Undo

Screenwriter

Movies
2023

Légua

2019

A Pleasure, Comrades!

Short
2017

The Case of J.

2009

A Rua

2006

Domingo

2004

Undo

Editor

Short
2009

A Rua

2006

Domingo

2004

Undo

Producer

Documentaries
2012

Linha Vermelha