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Filmmaker · Portugal

Alberto Seixas Santos

Died in 2016

Alberto Seixas Santos was born in Lisbon on 20 March 1936. A film critic from 1958 and founder of a film club, he studied in Paris, at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, then in London in the early sixties. He was one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Centre, created in 1973 the country's first higher film school, presided over the Portuguese Film Institute from 1976 to 1978 and directed the programmes of public television. A professor at the Lisbon film school from 1980 to 2002, he directed only five feature films. He died in Lisbon on 10 December 2016.

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