- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 19, 1984
- Place of Birth
- Lisbon, Portugal
João Salaviza
João Salaviza (Portuguese: João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; born 19 February 1984; Lisbon) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and former actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including the Short Film Golden Bear, the Short Film Palme d'Or, and the Un Certain Regard. João Salaviza was born on 19 February 1984, in Lisbon, Portugal. His father is José Edgar Feldman, a film director, and his mother is a producer. He studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His film Arena won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, his film Rafa won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Salaviza worked as assistant editor in Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.
Filmography
movieTo Our Friends
2025 · Producer
movieThe Messenger
2024 · Editor
movieThe Buriti Flower
2024 · Story, Editor, Director, Producer
movieKetwajê
2023 · Producer
movieThe Dead and the Others
2019 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
movieRussa
2018 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
movieElon Doesn't Believe in Death
2017 · Screenplay
movieHigh Cities of Bone
2017 · Editor, Director, Writer
movieIn the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
2016 · Self
movieMountain
2015 · Writer, Director, Editor
movieCerro Negro
2012 · Director, Editor, Writer
movieRafa
2012 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieA Portuguese Film
2011 · Himself
movieStrokkur
2011 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Sound Editor
movieCasa Na Comporta
2011 · Writer, Director
movieHotel Müller
2010 · Editor, Director, Writer
movieArena
2009 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieEccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
2009 · Assistant Editor
Cães de Caça
movieCães de Caça
2008 · Director, Writer, Editor
Dedicated To The One I Love
movieDedicated To The One I Love
2008 · Editor
movieThe Summer of Rita M.
2006 · Editor
movieTwo People
2004 · Director
Lumiar
movieLumiar
2004 · Assistant Director
movieQuerença
2004 · Zé Manel
movieWhen It Thunders
2000 · , Gaspar as a Child
Da Invicta ao Sonoro
movieDa Invicta ao Sonoro
1997
movieL'Enfant du secret
1996
movieLa leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado
1996
tvSozinhos em Casa
1993
tvRegards d'enfance
1993
moviePoor George
1993 · Nuno - Jorge's Nephew