About
Rodrigo Areias
Overview
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
Known for
Directing |
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2024 | A pedra sonha dar flor | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2024 | The Worst Man in London | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2021 | A Arte da Memória | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2020 | Down by Life | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2020 | Surdine | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2018 | Blue Breath | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2018 | Cold Pixel | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2015 | Ornament and Crime | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2015 | The Keeper | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Cinema | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2013 | 1960 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Hay Road | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2011 | Tamed | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2010 | Golias | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Flow | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Tebas | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
Nicolinas | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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2024 | A pedra sonha dar flor | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
2020 | Down by Life | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
2018 | Blue Breath | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
2015 | Ornament and Crime | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
2015 | The Keeper | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2014 | Cinema | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2013 | 1960 | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
2012 | Hay Road | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
2010 | Golias | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2008 | Flow | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
2007 | Tebas | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
Production |
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2025 | Ariel | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2024 | Telepathic Letters | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2024 | A pedra sonha dar flor | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
2024 | A pedra sonha dar flor | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2024 | Garrano | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2023 | Dulcineia | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2023 | Espinho | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2023 | Seagulls Cut Through the Sky | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2023 | Maria | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2023 | Ana Morphose | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2023 | The Nothingness Club | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2022 | Love Lights | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2021 | A Arte da Memória | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2021 | Around Rocha’s Table | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2021 | Lethes | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2021 | Sycorax | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2021 | Infinite Sea | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2020 | Ons | Production | Co-Producer | 59 Average |
2020 | Listen | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2020 | Our Kingdom | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2020 | Tie | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2020 | Ursula | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2020 | Surdine | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2020 | Alis Ubbo | Production | Associate Producer | 59 Average |
2019 | Purpleboy | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2019 | Quantic Love | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2019 | Arquivos Kino-Pop | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2019 | Magnetick Pathways | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2019 | Wild | Production | Co-Producer | 58 Average |
2019 | O Toucador | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2019 | Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2018 | Punk´s Not Dread | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2018 | Blue Breath | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2018 | Four Seasons and Autumn | Production | Production Assistant | N/A N/A |
2018 | Slope | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2018 | O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2017 | Amantes na Fronteira | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2017 | Fade Into Nothing | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2017 | Porto | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2017 | The Everlasting Man | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2017 | Terrain Vague | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2017 | O dia em que as cartas pararam | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2017 | Drop by Drop | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2017 | Mabata Bata | Production | Co-Producer | N/A N/A |
2016 | Delírio em Las Vedras | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2016 | Penumbria | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2016 | Por Diabos | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2016 | The Amazed Spectator | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2015 | The Cause and the Shadow | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2015 | Ornament and Crime | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2015 | The Keeper | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2015 | Over El Cielo | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2015 | A Caverna | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2015 | The Portrait | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2014 | Lisbon Revisited | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2014 | Carrotrope | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2014 | Escala | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2013 | Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2013 | Far from Eden | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2013 | Luminita | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2013 | Carousel | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2013 | 1960 | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2013 | 3x3D | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2013 | The Imperfect Cradle | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2013 | CineSapiens | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2012 | The Gravedigger | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2012 | Historic Centre | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2012 | Tavern Man | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2012 | Luís | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2012 | Hay Road | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2012 | Posfácio at the Clothing Factory | Production | Delegated Producer | 59 Average |
2012 | Canned Dreams | Production | Co-Producer | 59 Average |
2012 | To the Wolf of Madragoa | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2012 | The Scoundrel | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2011 | Beard | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2011 | The Baron | Production | Co-Producer | 59 Average |
2011 | Mazagão, a Água que Volta | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2009 | Arca D'Água | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2008 | Flow | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2007 | Tebas | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2007 | Heavy Architecture | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2007 | Punk Is Not Daddy | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2000 | Lisboa-Boa 345 A.E. | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
It Was Them | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
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Sound |
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2011 | Tamed | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
2004 | Vanity | Sound | Sound Designer | 58 Average |
Camera |
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2006 | 667, Neighbor of the Beast | Camera | Camera Operator | N/A N/A |
2004 | Estádio Novo | Camera | Camera Operator | N/A N/A |
Editing |
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2020 | Down by Life | Editing | Editor | 58 Average |
2020 | Ursula | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2016 | Penumbria | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |
2015 | Ornament and Crime | Editing | Editor | 59 Average |
2015 | The Keeper | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2015 | Over El Cielo | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2012 | To the Wolf of Madragoa | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2011 | Love Is the Answer for the Lack of Argument | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2004 | Estádio Novo | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |