A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Porto, Portugal
Born:
July 16, 1974
After studying law at the Catholic University in Porto, he earned a degree from the Lisbon School of Theater and Cinema (ESTC) in 1998 with his graduation project, the documentary Arte Pública. Da Silva made two other documentaries before directing his first full-length feature film, Body Rice, in 2006. Swans is his second full-length feature film. Hugo Vieira da Silva currently lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.
Director:
2002 Confesso - Albuquerque Mendes
2006 Body Rice
2011 Swans
2016 An Outpost of Progress
2020 A Perfeição
2025 Off the Beaten Track
Director of Photography:
2002 Confesso - Albuquerque Mendes
2006 Body Rice
2011 Swans
2016 An Outpost of Progress
2020 A Perfeição
2025 Off the Beaten Track
Producer:
2002 Confesso - Albuquerque Mendes
2006 Body Rice
2011 Swans
2016 An Outpost of Progress
2020 A Perfeição
2025 Off the Beaten Track
Screenplay:
2002 Confesso - Albuquerque Mendes
2006 Body Rice
2011 Swans
2016 An Outpost of Progress
2020 A Perfeição
2025 Off the Beaten Track
Writer:
2002 Confesso - Albuquerque Mendes
2006 Body Rice
2011 Swans
2016 An Outpost of Progress
2020 A Perfeição
2025 Off the Beaten Track
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
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.