Paulo Rocha was born in Porto and earned a degree in directing in 1961 in Paris at IDHEC (Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques). He was assistant director to Jean Renoir on Le Caporal Épinglé (1962). On his return to Portugal, he worked with Manoel de Oliveira on A Caça and Acto da Primavera. His first film, Os Verdes Anos (1963), marks the start of the Cinema Novo Português [New Portuguese Cinema]. Between 1975 and 1983 he was cultural attaché at the Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo. He died in 2012.

(1963) Os Verdes Anos
(1966) Como Servir o Vinho do Porto – short film
(1966) Mudar de Vida
(1971) Sever do Vouga – uma Experiência – short film
(1972) Pousada das Chagas – uma Representação sobre o Museu de Óbidos – short film
(1978/82) A Ilha dos Amores
(1984) A Ilha de Moraes
(1987) O Desejado ou As Montanhas da Lua
(1988) Máscara de Aço Contra o Abismo Azul
(1993) Oliveira, l’Architecte – television version
(1993) Oliveira, o Arquitecto – cinema version
(1993) Portugaru-San, o Senhor Portugal em Tokushima
(1995) Shoei Imamura, le Libre-Penseur
(1998) Camões – Tanta Guerra, Tanto Engano
(1998) O Rio do Ouro
(2000) A Raiz do Coração
(2001) As Sereias – short film
(2004) Vanitas ou o Outro Mundo
(2013) Se Eu Fosse Ladrão… Roubava

Ana Hatherly (1929-2015) is a recognised, well-known writer, plastic artist and director with degrees in Cinema from the London Film School, Germanic Philology from Lisbon University and Hispanic Studies from Berkeley. She first published in 1958 and subsequently published a total of twenty-three books of poetry and a similar number of prose works (novels and essays) while continuing in parallel her work as a plastic artist and filmmaker, making the boundaries between poetry, design and painting increasingly blurred.

(1972) The Thought Fox (short)
(1973) Spaghetti Time
(1974) Exercícios de Animação (short)
(1974) C.S.S. (Cut-outs, Silk, Sand) (short)
(1974) Fragmentos de Animação (short)
(1974) Sopro 57-Na-39 (short)
(1975) Revolução (short)
(1976) Diga-me, o que é a Ciência? I (short)
(1976) Diga-me, o que é a Ciência? II (short)
(1977) Música Negativa
(1977) Rotura (short)

António-Pedro Vasconcelos was born in Leiria. From the late 1960s to the 1970s, he was part of the Centro Português de Cinema [Portuguese Centre for Cinema] funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Perdido por Cem, his first feature film, belongs to the second cohort of the Cinema Novo Português [New Portuguese Cinema]. In the period 1974-76, he filmed documentaries. In the mid-1980s, with O Lugar do Morto, he managed to reconcile an ambitious mise en scène with public success. Since then he has produced fiction films on a regular basis but has not stopped making documentaries.

(1967) Tapeçaria – Tradição que Revive – short film
(1968) A Indústria Cervejeira em Portugal – short film
(1969) 27 Minutos com Fernando Lopes-Graça – short film
(1970) Exposição 22 Anos de Tapeçaria – short film
(1972) Perdido por Cem
(1974) Adeus, Até o Meu Regresso
(1976) Cantigamente nº 2
(1976) Emigrantes… e Depois?
(1980) Oxalá
(1984) O Lugar do Morto
(1992) Aqui d’El Rei
(1999) Jaime
(2003) Os Imortais
(2007) Call-Girl
(2007) Milú, a Menina da Rádio
(2008) Uma Família de Piratas – short film
(2010) A Bela e o Paparazzo
(2011) Virtudes Públicas, Vícios Privados
(2011) Valeu a Pena, um Retrato de Mário Moniz Pereira – co-directed with Leandro Ferreira
(2012) Eduardo Gageiro, um Século Ilustrado
(2013) J. Rentes de Carvalho, Tempo Contado
(2013) Cottinelli Telmo 1897-1948 – uma Vida Interrompida – co-directed with Leandro Ferreira
(2014) Os Gatos Não Têm Vertigens
(2015) Amor Impossível
(2017) A Voz e os Ouvidos do MFA
(2018) Parque Mayer