João Gonzalez
João Gonzalez (born February 11, 1996) is a Portuguese film director and animator based in Porto. He is mostly known for writing and directing the multi-award-winning short film ''Ice Merchants','' which premiered and was awarded at Cannes Film Festival the same year. On January 24, 2023, "Ice Merchants" became the first Portuguese production to ever receive an Academy Award nomination. Career Gonzalez did a Multimedia Arts BA at ESMAD in Porto, where he graduated in 2017, specialising in the field of animation. Recipient of a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, he did a Masters of Arts at the Royal College of Art (UK), from which he graduated in 2020. , he works as a director and animator in Porto, at the COLA animation collective. He is also a composer, working on the original scores of his films. Filmography * ''The Voyager'' (2017) * ''Nestor'' (2019) * ''Ice Merchants'' (2022) Recognition His first film and final BA project ''The Voyager'' received ...
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Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas
March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the
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