João Mário Lourenço Bagão Grilo (born 8 November 1958) is a
Portuguese film director
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, author and professor, born in
Figueira da Foz
Figueira da Foz (), officially Figueira da Foz City (), often called simply Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coa ...
. He attended economics at the
University of Coimbra
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but dropped out. In 1983, he graduated in sociology at Lisbon's
ISCTE and in 1994 earned a
Ph.D.
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in
communication sciences
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from the
NOVA University Lisbon
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. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the NOVA University Lisbon, where, among other courses, he teaches Filmology and Film Direction.
His first long feature film won the Georges Sadoul Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Filmography
*''Maria'', 1978-9 (Maria)
*''A Estrangeira'', 1982 (The Foreigner)
*''O Processo do Rei'', 1989 (The King's Trial)
*''
O Fim do Mundo'', 1992 (The End of the World)
*''Saramago: Documentos'', 1994 (Saramago: Documents)
*''
Os Olhos da Ásia
''Os Olhos da Ásia'' (Portuguese: The Eyes of Asia) is a 1996 Portuguese historical drama film directed by João Mário Grilo, who also co-wrote the script with Paulo Filipe. It is partially based on the novel ''Silence'' by Shūsaku Endō. The ...
'', 1996 (The Eyes of Asia)
*''Longe da Vista'', 1998 (Out of Sight)
*''451 Forte'', 2000 (451 Forte)
*''A Falha'', 2002 (The Rift)
*''Prova de Contacto'', 2003 (Contact Proof)
*''O Tapete Voador'', 2005 (The Flying Carpet)
*''
Duas Mulheres
''Duas Mulheres'' is a 2009 Portuguese drama film directed by João Mário Grilo.
Cast
*Beatriz Batarda as Joana
* Débora Monteiro
*Virgílio Castelo Virgilio, the Italian and Spanish form of Virgil may refer to:
*Virgilio, Lombardy, a ''frazion ...
'', 2009 (Two Women)
* ''A Vossa Casa'', 2012 (Your Home)
* O Grande Auditório - Memorial de uma Obra, 2014
* ''Viagem aos Confins de um Sítio Onde Nunca Estive'' (on the work of sculptor Rui Chafes), 2014
* ''A Vossa Terra'', 2016 (Your Land)
* ''Não Esquecerás'', 2016 (You Won't Forget)
hort Hort may refer to:
* Hort, Hungary, a settlement in Heves county
* Hort., an abbreviation which indicates that a name for a plant saw significant use in the horticultural literature but was never properly published
* Hort (surname)
See also
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Writing (selection)
*"Monologues du Cinéma (A 'Course in Treatment' de S.M. Eisenstein, 1949)", in ''Trafic'', nr. 100 (Hiver 2016)
* ''Cinema & Filosofia: Compêndio'' (ed.). Lisboa: Colibri, 2014 (Cinema and Philosophy. A Compedium)
*"Propositions for a Gestural Cinema," in H. Gustafsson and A. Gronstad (eds.), ''Cinema and Agamben. Ethics, Biopolitics, and the Moving Image''. NY: Bloomsbury, 2014
* ''O Livro das Imagens''. Coimbra: Minerva, 2007 (The Book of Images)
* ''O Homem Imaginado: Cinema, Acção, Pensamento''. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2006 (The Imagined Man: cinema, action, thought)
* ''As Lições do Cinema. Manual de Filmologia''. Lisboa: Colibri, 2006 (The Lessons of Cinema)
* ''O Cinema da Não-Ilusão: Histórias para o Cinema Português''. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2006 (The Cinema of Non-illusion: histories for the Portuguese cinema)
* ''A Ordem no Cinema: Vozes e Palavras de Ordem no Estabelecimento do Cinema em Hollywood''. Lisboa: Relógio d'Agua, 1997 (The Order in Cinema: voices and watchwords on the establishment of cinema in Hollywood)
External links
*http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/1140?searchterm=Jo%C3%A3o+M%C3%A1rio+Gr
Grilo's short bio at Livros Horizonte*
Portuguese film directors
1958 births
Living people
People from Figueira da Foz
University of Coimbra alumni
University of Lisbon alumni
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