Rodrigo Areias
Born: 1978-01-01 in Guimarães, Portugal
Known For: Directing
Biography
Producer and Director. He started his studies in Management at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. With a degree in Sound and Image by the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University, he also has a specialization course in Film Direction from the Tisch School of Arts at the University of New York and the Eurodoc production program. He worked as a trainer in the workshops promoted by the association Filhos de Lumière. Throughout his career, he has developed creative works in the field of cinema, authoring fiction and documentary, alternating with other works in the fields of video art and video clips for some of the best names in the Portuguese rock scene (The Legendary Tiger Man, Wray Gunn, Mão Morta, Sean Riley, D3o, etc.) and several other projects. As a producer he started his career in 2001 and has since produced and co-produced more than 70 shorts, features, videos and documentaries. He produced renowned authors such as Edgar Pêra, João Canijo and F. J. Ossang, as well as young filmmakers such as André Gil Mata, João Rodrigues and Jorge Quintela. He has co-produced with Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Finland. As a director, among several films, Tebas (long metregem) and Corrente (short film) stands out with whom he was represented in more than fifty international festivals and was awarded with a dozen prizes. His second feature film premiered in Official Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Festival and was awarded a Special Mention. He was responsible for the cinema production of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, including films by directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Greenaway, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Victor Erice
Filmography
2026
- Another League ... (Producer)
- Asphalt Guerrilla ... (Writer)
2025
- Ariel ... (Producer)
- Nova '78 ... (Director)
- Stop. Rehearsal Rooms for a Historical Materialism ... (Producer)
2024
- The Worst Man in London ... (Director)
- Telepathic Letters ... (Producer)
- A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor ... (Director)
- Garrano ... (Producer)
2023
- Dulcineia ... (Producer)
- The Nothingness Club ... (Producer)
- Espinho ... (Producer)
- Seagulls Cut Through the Sky ... (Producer)
- Ana Morphose ... (Producer)
- Maria ... (Producer)
2022
- Love Lights ... (Producer)
2021
- Sycorax ... (Producer)
- A Arte da Memória ... (Producer)
- Lethes ... (Producer)
- Infinite Sea ... (Producer)
- Around Rocha’s Table ... (Producer)
2020
- Tie ... (Producer)
- Down by Life ... (Director)
- Listen ... (Producer)
- Our Kingdom ... (Producer)
- Ursula ... (Producer)
- Surdine ... (Director)
- Ons ... (Co-Producer)
- Alis Ubbo ... (Associate Producer)
2019
- Wild ... (Co-Producer)
- Purpleboy ... (Producer)
- Arquivos Kino-Pop ... (Producer)
- Magnetick Pathways ... (Producer)
- Quantic Love ... (Producer)
- O Toucador ... (Producer)
- Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real ... (Producer)
- Arquivos Kino-Pop ... (Producer)
2018
- Slope ... (Producer)
- Blue Breath ... (Director)
- O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta ... (Producer)
- Cold Pixel ... (Director)
- Punk´s Not Dread ... (Producer)
- Four Seasons and Autumn ... (Production Assistant)
2017
- Drop by Drop ... (Producer)
- Mabata Bata ... (Co-Producer)
- Terrain Vague ... (Producer)
- Porto ... (Producer)
- The Everlasting Man ... (Producer)
- Lovers on Borders ... (Producer)
- Fade Into Nothing ... (Producer)
- O dia em que as cartas pararam ... (Producer)
2016
- Por Diabos ... (Producer)
- Penumbria ... (Editor)
- The Amazed Spectator ... (Producer)
- Delírio em Las Vedras ... (Producer)
2015
- Over El Cielo ... (Producer)
- The Keeper ... (Writer)
- The Portrait ... (Producer)
- A Caverna ... (Producer)
- The Cause and the Shadow ... (Producer)
- Ornament and Crime ... (Director)
2014
- Escala ... (Producer)
- Cinema ... (Director)
- Lisbon Revisited ... (Producer)
- Carrotrope ... (Producer)
2013
- CineSapiens ... (Producer)
- Luminita ... (Producer)
- 3x3D ... (Producer)
- The Imperfect Cradle ... (Producer)
- Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater ... (Producer)
- 1960 ... (Producer)
- Far from Eden ... (Producer)
- Carousel ... (Producer)
2012
- Tavern Man ... (Producer)
- The Gravedigger ... (Producer)
- Posfácio at the Clothing Factory ... (Delegated Producer)
- Luís ... (Producer)
- Hay Road ... (Screenplay)
- To the Wolf of Madragoa ... (Editor)
- Historic Centre ... (Producer)
- Canned Dreams ... (Co-Producer)
- The Scoundrel ... (Producer)
- M ... (Producer)
2011
- The Baron ... (Co-Producer)
- Beard ... (Producer)
- Mazagão, a Água que Volta ... (Producer)
- Tamed ... (Director)
- Love Is the Answer for the Lack of Argument ... (Editor)
2010
- Golias ... (Writer)
2009
- Arca D'Água ... (Producer)
2008
- Flow ... (Producer)
2007
- Tebas ... (Screenplay)
- Punk Is Not Daddy ... (Producer)
- Heavy Architecture ... (Producer)
2006
- 667, Neighbor of the Beast ... (Camera Operator)
2004
- Vanity ... (Sound Designer)
- Estádio Novo ... (Camera Operator)
2000
- Lisboa-Boa 345 A.E. ... (Producer)