A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Lisbon, Portugal
João Pedro Plácido was born in Lisbon, 1979. He began directing and shooting music videos at age of nineteen, later on he attended the School of Theatre and Film (Lisbon) and the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (Potsdam - Babelsberg, Germany). He is fluent in five languages and has been working in features, shorts, documentaries and commercials all around the world since 2000, first as a camera assistant, and since 2009 as a cinematographer. His work has received national and international awards. (BE)LONGING is his first feature film.
Assistant Art Director:
2010 Eh Bien! Dansez Maintenant...
Cinematography:
2008 Access Road
2010 Eh Bien! Dansez Maintenant...
2016 Paul
2019 Lupo
2024 The Fortunate Ones
Director:
2008 Access Road
2010 Eh Bien! Dansez Maintenant...
2015 (Be)Longing
2016 Paul
2019 Lupo
2024 The Fortunate Ones
Director of Photography:
2008 Access Road
2010 Eh Bien! Dansez Maintenant...
2012 Deportado
2013 Entrecampos
2015 (Be)Longing
2016 Paul
2018 Sousa Martins
2019 Lupo
2019 Unskinned
2023 Carmen Troubles
2024 The Fortunate Ones
Writer:
2008 Access Road
2010 Eh Bien! Dansez Maintenant...
2012 Deportado
2013 Entrecampos
2015 (Be)Longing
2016 Paul
2018 Sousa Martins
2019 Lupo
2019 Unskinned
2023 Carmen Troubles
2024 The Fortunate Ones
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.