Tiago Hespanha
Born: 1978-01-01
Known For: Directing
Biography
He majored in architecture in 2004 and received a master’s degree in creative documentary from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University in 2012. He has been a partner at the production company TERRATREME since 2008. In 2006 he participated in a workshop on documentary filmmaking held by the Ateliers Varan in Lisbon and produced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since then he has been working as a director in his own films and has taken on different roles in other projects. In 2009 he worked as a trainee at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. He teaches at the DOCNOMADS - European Documentary Master Course. He directed the following films: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, co-directed with Frederico Lobo (2014 - World Premiere at “Visions du Réel”, Nyon, Switzerland); GUIDED TOUR (2009 - Audience Award at Indielisboa); THE GIFT FROM AFAR (2008 – Included in the collection "So close, So far" released in DVD by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); “GROUND GLASS I, II” (2007 – First prize at Lisbon’s Microfilms Festival); SHOW HOME (2007) and QUINTA DA CURRALEIRA (2006 – Primeiro Olhar Award at “Encontros de Cinema e Video de Viana do Castelo”).
Filmography
2025
- I Only Rest in the Storm ... (Producer)
- We Are Two Abysses ... (Producer)
2024
- When the Land Runs Away ... (Executive Producer)
- Astrakan 79 ... (Producer)
- Clandestina ... (Producer)
- I Am Here ... (Producer)
2023
- Tommy Guns ... (Producer)
- Shimmering Bodies ... (Producer)
2022
- Nameless Heitor ... (Producer)
2019
- Outside the Oranges Are Blooming ... (Producer)
- Lisbon Beat ... (Producer)
- Destiny Deluxe ... (Producer)
- Suzanne Daveau ... (Producer)
- Reynard ... (Producer)
- Ave Rara ... (Producer)
2018
- Campo ... (Director)
2017
- The Nothing Factory
- High Cities of Bone ... (Producer)
- Tudo o Que Imagino ... (Producer)
- Cidade ... (Producer)
- Antonio and Catarina ... (Producer)
2016
- Ama-San ... (Producer)
2014
- Industrial Revolution ... (Writer)
2009
- Cold Day ... (Sound Assistant)
- Latter-Day Saints ... (Additional Photography)
- Guided Tour ... (Director)
2007
- State of Exception ... (Editor)
- O Presente que Veio de Longe ... (Director)