The Craft of Film Masterclass with Pedro Costa (15*)

Pedro Costa Biography

Born in Lisbon in 1959, Pedro Costa left his studies in history to attend classes taught by the poet and filmmaker António Reis at the Lisbon Film School.

Ever since his first film O Sange, he has created documentaries and feature films that have premiered at Venice, Cannes and Locarno and won awards at festivals throughout the world, such as the FIPRESCI Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2001 for Colossal Youth or the Leopard for Best Direction at the Locarno Film Festival in 2014 for Horse Money.

His profound knowledge of film history, his dedication to craft, and his long-term commitment to making films about Cape Verdean immigrants in Lisbon and incorporating them in the process have established him as one of the most consistently daring and uncompromising directors living today.

Curtis Winter Biography

Curtis W. Winter is an American filmmaker. His first feature film, The Anchorage, won the Filmmakers of the Present Golden Leopard at Film Festival Locarno. His writing appears in Cinema Scope, Too Much, and Purple. He’s been a visiting artist at: Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Tokyo, CalArts, La Fémis, UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara. His film/video work has shown at ICA Boston, ICA London, Centre national de la photographie, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Fotomuseum Winterthur, NRW-Forum, The Wexner Center, The Carpenter Center, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts where he worked closely under Thom Andersen, James Benning, and Allan Sekula. He is a DPhil candidate in Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford where he is writing about post-slow cinema. He is currently in post-production on his second feature, Occident’s March.