A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Miguel Costa
Birthplace:
Portugal
Born:
April 13, 2001
Miguel Leal Costa is an Portuguese Steadicam Operator. He studied Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication at the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, in Lisbon. In 2023 completed a Tiffen Steadicam Gold Workshop in Tuscany, Italy by 'Steadicam Action' with lead instructor Chris Fawcett and special remote presence from Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown. Works as a Steadicam Operator for cinema, music videos, advertising. Also works as first camera assistant or focus puller and on special projects, as a cinematographer.
Assistant Camera:
2022 Vanette
Best Boy Lighting Technician:
2022 Vanette
2023 Daughters of the Fatherland
Cinematography:
2022 (In)Sight
2022 Baía de Luanda
2022 Vanette
2023 Daughters of the Fatherland
2023 O outro lado da fruta
Color Grading:
2022 (In)Sight
2022 Baía de Luanda
2022 Vanette
2023 Daughters of the Fatherland
2023 O outro lado da fruta
Director:
2022 (In)Sight
2022 Baía de Luanda
2022 Vanette
2023 Daughters of the Fatherland
2023 O outro lado da fruta
First Assistant Camera:
2022 (In)Sight
2022 Baía de Luanda
2022 Vanette
2023 Cliché
2023 Daughters of the Fatherland
2023 O outro lado da fruta
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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.