Pedro Neves was born in Leiria in 1977. He is a documentary filmmaker. He studied in Porto, where he completed a postgraduate degree and a master’s in Culture and Communication, specialising in Documentary, with a dissertation on documentaries from the years of the April Revolution. In 2007, he attended a documentary filmmaking course at the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 2008, he founded the production company Red Desert, where he works as a producer and director. His films have been screened on RTP, Canal Plus France, Canal Plus Afrique, or TVCine, and have been part of the competition in national and international festivals, such as Clermont-Ferrand, Guadalajara, Doclisboa, Documenta Madrid, Curtas Vila do Conde, São Paulo Short Film Festival, Adana, Regard, Porto Post Doc, Thessaloniki Festival, Seville IFF, CPH:DOX, among others. He has also worked on installations in galleries and museums, as well as with theatre companies from Porto. His filmography includes the documentaries The Forgotten (63’, 2009), Cold Water (14’, 2011), Inn(20’, 2014), Above Our Means (2015, 43’), The Beach (20’, 2016), and Tarrafal (91’, 2016). In 2023, he produced films such as The Melusinas at the Edge of the River, by Melanie Pereira (winner of three awards at Doclisboa, including Best Film and Best First Feature and was in the Official Selection of Fidmarseille 2024) and Lucefece, by Ricardo Leite (winner of Best Film in the Cinema Falado Competition at Porto Post Doc). Currently, he is working on the documentary “The Followers of the Revolution,” a co-production between Red Desert (PT) and JBA Production (FR). Dreams of a Revolution (14’, 2023) is his latest film.
