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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
Most Popular Rodrigo Areias Trailers
Total trailers found: 93
22 October 2020
In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet.
25 January 2012
Canned Dreams shows the multi-branching network of the modern food industry. The Finnish consumer buys a can in the grocery store, but where from far away do the raw materials and packaging materials for the preserves come from - and through how many hands? The film not only traces the various stages of the production process, but gives a voice to the people who work as part of it.
17 May 2023
A dense atmosphere of change and union strikes in Porto’s fishing port. Clara, the owner of a fishermen’s bar threatened by closure, finds in the arms of Raquel, an employee on cruise ships, the only shelter to express her fears and contradictions.
03 July 2021
In a parallel world Pedro tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges him and forces him to come to terms with his purpose.
03 September 2013
In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and experimental films to a budding community of cinephiles.
27 July 2017
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection.
09 November 2012
A typical day in the life of a lonely man who works in an unsuccessful tavern located in the historical center of Guimarães, an old town in Portugal.
01 January 2004
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isabel Ruth and Joana Bárcia – no strangers to this director's world – in a story about a depressed fashion designer who falls in love with the daughter of one her tailors.
20 March 2019
Nora comes out of prison. She only has one thing in mind: finding a youg neo-punk artist she admires, Léa.
10 November 2012
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
18 December 2020
A couple retreat to an Atlantic island to rebuild their relationship, strained by changes through the years.
09 July 2020
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town.
11 July 2019
Oscar is a child germinating in its parent’s garden. Its body is developping underground. Nobody knows its biological sex but he wants to be a boy.
25 April 2019
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
30 April 2017
Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. The oxen will be the basis of the "lobolo" payment, a traditional dowry that his uncle Raul must pay for his own marriage.
12 December 2017
Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.
30 October 2015
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition.
01 January 2007
A journey through the 80’s music scene in Portugal, gathering archive material shot and edited by Pêra, showing the filming process of music videos, concerts, band rehearsals and the last concert presented at the Rock Rendez Vous.
13 July 2021
Who is Sycorax? The first character in Shakespeare's "Tempest" to set foot on the island. The problem is that she has no voice.
14 August 2014
A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city.
01 January 2015
Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.
01 January 2015
A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.
08 December 2012
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare.
26 October 2021
The art of memory is a classic technique that associates images with places through a process of remembrance and meaning.
13 November 2006
A family man becomes obsessed with his front door neighbor. Slowly he gives up work and forgets about anything asides his obsession.
12 July 2013
A survivor travels in search of the last bastion of civilization. Battling to survive, but never losing hope that something nostalgic from the past, which lives on in his memory, might still exist.
05 October 2020
Over the dark and barren landscapes of a city somewhere in the Arctic Circle, we hear the story of a man who dreamed he was a woman, an oneiric reverie that allows him to be in two opposite places at the same time.
29 January 2016
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre?
17 July 2016
Penumbria was founded two hundred years ago, in a distant istmus - a place of arid soils, angry seas and violent weather.
14 June 2023
Téo, a lunar teenager, meets the new parish priest of his rural village, who has just arrived from Mozambique.
16 May 2023
Maria spends her days working in her family’s noisy metal factory. While being oppressed by male violence, she is also responsible for caring for her sister-in-law and niece, both existentially depleted.
19 October 2017
A false diary on a man's journey that, more than just disappear, he aims to be nothing, to become nothing.
27 February 2020
After the crisis came tourism and Lisbon's transformation. Alis Ubbo (Phoenician for safe port) follows the change in the urban landscape of the city in the last 2 years.
20 July 2018
They manage a cultural venue. He believes in technological evolution. She believes that love is static.
10 July 2013
Two brothers, who haven't spoken in years, meet at their mother's funeral where they must deal with their mourning family, their obligations as sons and their own feelings of loss.
23 April 2013
Two childhood friends grew up and face strange feelings now. One of them tries to explore that feelings by words and their relationship becomes uncomfortable.
05 May 2018
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
18 June 2014
Carrotrope is a new optical toy. It represents the cyclic movements of life. Meanwhile, a man drinks and the time passes at 24 frames per second.
01 July 2013
A carousel-esque pocket-movie set in a Florentine piazza.
06 October 2020
She has a large head and a small body. Her clothes are fitted to the size of her head. He has a small head and a large body.
21 July 2018
And then, a house will appear to be waiting you: as in a slope, this is a leaning story on the memory of places and things, on returns and new beginnings.
09 July 2019
A mysterious shadow unveiling a female figure walking naked towards us in the desert. In another sequence, the same woman speaks on the phone, talking about the end of the world.
01 January 2012
The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town.
01 January 2009
In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.
01 January 2007
Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.
23 October 2000
On All Saint’s Day 1755, around 09:40 hours, Lisbon was hit by an earthquake which eradicated almost the entire city.
10 February 2011
Based on the installation Santa Paz Domestica, Domesticada by Ana Vieira (1977) and excerpts from the September 22nd, 1956 issue of the magazine O Cruzeiro.
04 February 2024
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under the sun's blazing heat. The young boy, Joel, discovers a man who is about to set the forest on fire.
08 December 2011
Caught in time, a trio of prehistoric characters lives around a dolmen. One of them, who is hyperactive, tries to stir his mates emotions with inventions and works of art.
01 January 2011
It is not the landscape that changes. Every service station is a service station. What changes is being in movement.
16 July 2021
There is a village in the mountain and a house in the village, where Ema repeats gestures and tasks: she takes care of her grandmother, walks, reads, waits.
18 May 2017
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion.
28 January 2019
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet.
25 October 2018
Four distinct individuals — a filmmaker charting an autumnal trail of leaves, a mysterious girl wandering through the labyrinths of creation, a woman immersed in poignant reminiscences of autumns past, and a man devoted to nurturing the void left by a departed tree — converge in the multifaceted, polymorphic realm of Jorge Listopad (1921-2017), poet, essayist, teacher, mentor, theatre and television director, husband and father.
02 January 2012
An effervescent painterly film tribute – replete with driving organ soundtrack – to 18th-century poet and satirist António Lobo de Carvalho, otherwise known as The Wolf of Madragoa.
01 July 2008
He is a miner, everyday tries to go with the river flow. She dreams of escaping too, but she’s trapped.
