film director and producer

Ricardo Costa completed his studies in 1967 at the Faculty of Arts at the Lisbon University. After submitting a thesis on the novels of Kafka (Franz Kafka: writing in the mirror), he obtained a PHD in 1969. He was a high school teacher and owned a company (MONDAR editors), where he published a number of sociological texts and avant-garde papers, literature and cinema. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, he became a filmmaker. He was a partner of Grupo Zero, with other filmmakers like João César Monteiro, Jorge Silva Melo and Alberto Seixas Santos. Later, he became an independent producer with the company Diafilme, where he produced several of his films and some of other directors. He is the author of essays on cinema, vision and language. He organizes film projections and cycles in Paris (Cinémathèque Française and Musée de l'Homme). Shot on the threshold of documentary and fiction, Brumas (Mists) is his latest feature film (Venice Film Festival - New Territories, 2003).