Rodrigo Areias
Born 1978 (age 48) · Guimarães, Portugal
Appears in 101 titles

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

Hay Road
6.0
Hay Road
2012
Director
The Worst Man in London
5.2
The Worst Man in London
2024
Director
Ornament and Crime
5.7
Ornament and Crime
2015
Director
Flow
2.7
Flow
2008
Director
Tamed
5.0
Tamed
2011
Director
Blue Breath
5.7
Blue Breath
2018
Director
Surdine
7.0
Surdine
2020
Director
Tebas
3.5
Tebas
2007
Director
Down by Life
1.0
Down by Life
2020
Director
1960
1960
2013
Director
A Arte da Memória
A Arte da Memória
2021
Director
The Keeper
The Keeper
2015
Director
A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor
A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor
2024
Director
Cold Pixel
Cold Pixel
2018
Director
Golias
Golias
2010
Director
Cinema
Cinema
2014
Director
Nicolinas
Director
Nova '78
Nova '78
2025
Director