Portuguese Cinematographers - Joao Costa Menezes, Vasco Nunes, Eduardo Serra, Mario Barroso, Lu S Correia (Paperback)

Chapters: Joao Costa Menezes, Vasco Nunes, Eduardo Serra, Mario Barroso, Lu s Correia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joao Costa Menezes is a London-based Portuguese film actor, film producer and film director. After a degree in Law by the University of Coimbra and three years working as a lawyer in Portugal, Joao decided to move to London in 1998, to follow an acting career. He got his first acting job in 1999, in the BBC series Sunburn, playing Luis. After that, he appeared in series such as Ghormenghast and Jonathan Creek. In London, he took a film course at the London Film School and a few workshops at Raindance . His first short film as a director, actor and producer Zero, was shot in London in 2000. It was awarded a special prize at the Huesca Short Film Festival, Spain. In 2001 he directed his first feature film, Akasha, a no-budget film shot in video, distributed in Russia, nominated for the M li s d'Argent 2001. It was premiered in the United States of America at the Atlanta Film Festival. In 2004 he directed his first music video Melancholic Ballad (for the Left Lovers), for The Fingertips, which became number 1 at Sic Radical and got the Best Music Video Award at the Arouca Film Festival. Joao Got his Unarmed