Name
Teresa Villaverde
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1966-05-18 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Lisbon, Portugal
Biography
Teresa Villaverde is a Portuguese screenwriter, director, and producer, born in Lisbon in 1966.
She began her artistic career as co-writer and co-director of a stage production with the Theatre Group of the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon.
Her films have won numerous awards and have been the focus of retrospectives and critical study worldwide — including the Centre Pompidou (France, 2019) and Fundação de Serralves (Portugal, 2019) — as well as complete retrospectives at festivals and cinematheques in Italy, Spain, Croatia, Switzerland, South Korea, and Portugal.
She is frequently invited to teach in Portugal and abroad.
Her work has premiered at the world’s leading festivals, including Cannes, Venice, and Berlin.
Known For
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Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film...
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Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors....
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Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One da...
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Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented ...
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Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant,...
- 1986 Hovering Over the Water as Rosa
- 1994 Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
- 1994 Two Brothers, My Sister as Voice of the Teacher (voice)
- 2018 Acts of Cinema
- 2007 O Capacete Dourado as Enfermeira
- 2002 Lei
