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Filmmaker · Portugal

António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Died in 2024

António-Pedro Vasconcelos was born in Leiria on 10 March 1939, the son of a lawyer. He began his law studies in Lisbon and then, as the first film scholarship holder of the Gulbenkian Foundation, left in 1961 for Paris, where he followed a course at the Sorbonne without completing it and discovered the young French cinema. A critic and editor-in-chief of the journal Cinéfilo, he was one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Centre. A defender of a cinema that finds its audience, he made in 1984 one of the country's greatest successes and for a long time criticised public subsidies. He died in Lisbon on 5 March 2024, shortly before his eighty-fifth birthday.

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