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Patrícia Sequeira

Patrícia Sequeira

Directing

Biography

Patrícia Sequeira started her career in Production but soon went working as Script Supervisor of TV programs. After seven years of experience in live shows, entertainment and fiction contents, she debuted as Director with the first Portuguese edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (RTP), was part of the directing team of telenovelas Fúria de Viver and O Jogo (SIC), and directed the miniseries Segredo in Brazil (RTP). As freelancer, she wrote several short films, including O Elevador and O Elevador II - Inbox. She gained notoriety at NBP (current Plural Entertainment), the production company where she dedicate 10 years of her life and was promoted to Project Manager of TV series Morangos com Açúcar (seasons II and III) and telenovela Doce Fugitiva, both for TVI. In 2007, with the foundation of SP Televisão, she continued managing and directing fiction programs, for RTP and SIC, awarded in Portugal and abroad. At this production company, she left her personal mark in TV series such as Conta-me Como Foi, Liberdade 21, Cidade Despida, Velhos Amigos, Depois do Adeus and, most recently, Terapia; as well as in the telenovelas that changed the panorama of audiences in Portugal, Laços de Sangue e Mar Salgado. In 2014 she created her own production company, R.I. Filmes, and with it her first feature film, Jogo de Damas, that was very well-received abroad as well. In recent years, she also has been the Artistic Director of telenovelas like Coração d'Ouro and Amor Maior, and has signed works in Advertising.

Known For

Old Friends

Freedom is a state of mind... Carlos, José and Matias are three old friends who have known each other since childhood. José lives with his daughter, his son in law and his nine-year-old grandson Pedro. Being a grandfather is his only true source of happiness. Carlos is retired and spends most of his days tinkering. Matias, on the other hand, is a widower and lives alone and abandoned, as his son is living abroad. Each of them has a strong and contentious character of their own, but they are all joined by a deep friendship. When José is sent to a retirement home, Carlos and Matias set a plan to bust him out. They sneak into the retirement home and take him away from that depressing environment in which he was discarded. They know that they can’t come back home, so they decide to spend a while in Matias’ house up north. But, in the middle of their escape, they find José’s grandson snuck in there. Pedro doesn't want to leave his grandpa and insists on accompanying them in their journey.

Old Friends

2011Series
Naked City
6.0

Showing reality like it is... What happens when a promising and smart young woman is suddenly called upon to lead he most sophisticated police force in the country. To Ana Belmonte, this is the promotion of her lifetime, to the Criminal Police, this is a shake-up in their deep-seated hierarchy. This young inspector will be confronted with crimes that are tough to crack, where everyone is a suspect and leads can lead to the most unexpected places. But she’ll also have to face the jealousy and anger within her own department, where there are as many allies as there are enemies, and she’s a woman in a men’s world. Having been promoted by her former stepfather and national director Alberto Machado, Ana is going to permanently change the lives of those around her, whether they like it or not.

Naked City

2010Series
Downfall
2.0

After an anonymous report, the former minister Álvaro Vieira Branco, under investigation for several crimes such as lobbying and misuse of powers, stays in home detention with an electronic bracelet. The report allows the criminal inspector, Gonçalo Schmidt, to finally investigate what they have suspected for so long: Álvaro Vieira Branco does not own personal nor familiar income to justify his high-quality level. Imprisoned in his luxurious mansion, Vieira Branco has to adapt his strategies to keep satisfying (mostly) the financial needs of those who surround him, while he tries to: get rid of the case, find out who is the whistle-blower and maintain his influence on the public sphere. To solve all of these, Vieira Branco counts on with his long-standing lawyer, David Rebelo Morais, current politicians and his trustworthy foreman, Zé Mário.

Downfall

2021Series
New Beginning
8.0

Álvaro and Maria do Carmo lived happily in Angola. He was a successful businessman and she was a mild mannered housewife. They have two children together, Ana and João, who were studying and living their teenage years in Luanda... Until the day the civil war broke out and everything fell apart. Amidst declarations of independence, a wave of violence breaks out and the established peace and order fades away. In July, 1975, the Mendonça family, along with over five hundred thousand people, leave their belongings behind and embark on an air convoy that would become the biggest exodus in the history of the Portuguese people to a homeland that most only knew from photos and dubbed it Metropolis. In Lisbon, Joaquim and Natália, Álvaro’s brother-in-law and sister, take the Mendonça family in their small apartment, where they will try to get their lives back in order. However, over that hot summer of 1975, the integration seemed to be far from easy.

New Beginning

2013Series