Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa was born in Lisbon in 1958. He gave up history studies for the city's film school, where he followed the classes of the poet and filmmaker António Reis, and worked as an assistant to Jorge Silva Melo and João Botelho before shooting a first feature film, presented in Venice in 1989. From 1997, he took his work to the Fontainhas neighbourhood, built by Cape Verdean immigrants on the outskirts of Lisbon, and filmed the same inhabitants there for twenty years. He then moved to video and to shoots without a crew.

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• CinemaDown to EarthCasa de LavaPedro Costa · 1995Cinema