Paulo Branco

Paulo Branco, born in Lisbon in 1950, started his career as a producer in 1979. After dividing his time between Paris and London for over thirty years, he has produced more than 200 films, and collaborated with such illustrious names as Manoel de Oliveira, Wim Wenders, João César Monteiro, Raoul Ruiz, Chantal Akerman, Alain Tanner, Werner Schroeter, Robert Kramer, Pedro Costa, André Téchiné, Andrzej Zoulawski, Peter Handke, Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, Cédric Kahn, João Botelho, João Mário Grilo, Teresa Villaverde, José Álvaro Morais, Jean Claude Biette, Sharunas Bartas, Michel Piccoli, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Christophe Honoré, and Paul Auster...

His career as a producer has been recognized worldwide, yet Paulo Branco is also a distributor and exhibitor, both in Portugal and France. His remarkable contribution to the dynamics of independent cinema and his devotion to heighten its visibility internationally, have kept him quite busy over the last few decades.

Starting early on in his career, Paulo Branco, has yearly attended the most renowned film festivals throughout the world: Cannes, Venice, Berlin, New York, Toronto, Tokyo, São Paulo, Montreal, Salónica, and he has presided on the juries of Berlin (1999); Venice (2005) and Rotterdam (2006).