Rodrigo Areias
Producer and Director.
He started his studies in Management at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
With a degree in Sound and Image by the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University, he also has a specialization course in Film Direction from the Tisch School of Arts at the University of New York and the Eurodoc production program.
He worked as a trainer in the workshops promoted by the association Filhos de Lumière.
Throughout his career, he has developed creative works in the field of cinema, authoring fiction and documentary, alternating with other works in the fields of video art and video clips for some of the best names in the Portuguese rock scene (The Legendary Tiger Man, Wray Gunn, Mão Morta, Sean Riley, D3o, etc.) and several other projects. As a producer he started his career in 2001 and has since produced and co-produced more than 70 shorts, features, videos and documentaries. He produced renowned authors such as Edgar Pêra, João Canijo and F. J. Ossang, as well as young filmmakers such as André Gil Mata, João Rodrigues and Jorge Quintela. He has co-produced with Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Finland. As a director, among several films, Tebas (long metregem) and Corrente (short film) stands out with whom he was represented in more than fifty international festivals and was awarded with a dozen prizes. His second feature film premiered in Official Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Festival and was awarded a Special Mention. He was responsible for the cinema production of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, including films by directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Greenaway, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Victor Erice
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Films (103)
Asphalt Guerrilla
2026 · Writer, Producer
Nova '78
2026 · Director, Co-Producer
A jamais les premières
2026 · Producer
Ariel
2025 · Producer
Stop. Rehearsal Rooms for a Historical Materialism
2025 · Producer
Telepathic Letters
2024 · Producer
A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor
2024 · Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenplay
Le Pire Homme de Londres
2024 · Director
Garrano
2024 · Producer
Dulcineia
2023 · Producer
Espinho
2023 · Producer
Seagulls Cut Through the Sky
2023 · Producer
Maria
2023 · Producer
The Nothingness Club
2023 · Producer
Ana Morphose
2023 · Producer
Love Lights
2022 · Producer
A Arte da Memória
2021 · Director, Producer
Around Rocha’s Table
2021 · Producer
Lethes
2021 · Producer
Sycorax
2021 · Producer
Infinite Sea
2021 · Producer
Ons
2020 · Co-Producer
Down by Life
2020 · Director, Editor, Writer
Listen
2020 · Producer
Our Kingdom
2020 · Producer
Tie
2020 · Producer
Ursula
2020 · Producer, Editor
Surdine
2020 · Director, Producer
Alis Ubbo
2020 · Associate Producer
Purpleboy
2019 · Producer
Quantic Love
2019 · Producer
Magnetick Pathways
2019 · Producer
Wild
2019 · Co-Producer
O Toucador
2019 · Producer
Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real
2019 · Producer
Blue Breath
2018 · Director, Producer, Writer
Punk´s Not Dread
2018 · Producer
Four Seasons and Autumn
2018 · Production Assistant
Slope
2018 · Producer
Cold Pixel
2018 · Director
O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
2018 · Producer
Lovers on Borders
2017 · Producer
Fade Into Nothing
2017 · Producer
Porto
2017 · Producer
The Everlasting Man
2017 · Producer
Terrain Vague
2017 · Producer
O dia em que as cartas pararam
2017 · Producer
Água Mole
2017 · Producer
Mabata Bata
2017 · Co-Producer
Delírio em Las Vedras
2016 · Producer
Penumbria
2016 · Producer, Editor
Por Diabos
2016 · Producer
The Amazed Spectator
2016 · Producer
The Cause and the Shadow
2015 · Producer
Ornament and Crime
2015 · Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay
The Keeper
2015 · Editor, Writer, Producer, Director
A Caverna
2015 · Producer
Over El Cielo
2015 · Producer, Editor
The Portrait
2015 · Producer
Lisbon Revisited
2014 · Producer
Cinema
2014 · Writer, Director
Carrotrope
2014 · Producer
Escala
2014 · Producer
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
2013 · Producer
Far from Eden
2013 · Producer
Luminita
2013 · Producer
Carousel
2013 · Producer
1960
2013 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
3x3D
2013 · Producer
The Imperfect Cradle
2013 · Producer
CineSapiens
2013 · Producer
The Gravedigger
2012 · Producer
Historic Centre
2012 · Producer
Tavern Man
2012 · Producer
Luís
2012 · Producer
Hay Road
2012 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
Posfácio at the Clothing Factory
2012 · Delegated Producer
Canned Dreams
2012 · Co-Producer
To the Wolf of Madragoa
2012 · Editor, Producer
The Scoundrel
2012 · Producer
M
2012 · Producer
Beard
2011 · Producer
The Baron
2011 · Co-Producer
Tamed
2011 · Music, Director
Mazagão, a Água que Volta
2011 · Producer
Love Is the Answer for the Lack of Argument
2011 · Editor
Golias
2010 · Writer, Director
Arca D'Água
2009 · Producer
Flow
2008 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Tebas
2007 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
Heavy Architecture
2007 · Producer
Punk Is Not Daddy
2007 · Producer
667, Neighbor of the Beast
2006 · Camera Operator
Vanitas
2004 · Sound Designer
Estádio Novo
2004 · Camera Operator, Editor
Lisboa-Boa 345 A.E.
2000 · Producer
Nicolinas
· Director
It Was Them
· Producer
Torn Heart
· Co-Producer
Chico
· Producer
An Odd Enchantment
· Producer
Ghost Voices
· Director, Screenplay
Mermaid in the Sun
· Producer
