Jury: Selección Oficial Argentina

Jury

Selección Oficial Argentina

Bio

Luís Urbano was born in Águeda in 1968. He graduated in Economics at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He is one of the Directors of Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival and since 2000 has headed the Agência Portuguesa de Curta Metragem. In 2005, he joined Sandro Aguilar in the production company O Som e a Fúria. Since then, he has produced several short films including Rapace (João Nicolau) and Cântico das Criaturas (Miguel Gomes). In 2008 he produced Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (Miguel Gomes, shown in this edition of the Festival) and A Zona ( Sandro Aguilar, Bafici 2008). Currently he's producing A Religiosa Portuguesa, by Eugène Green, and A espada e a rosa, first feature film by João Nicolau.