
Tiago Teixeira
Directing
Biography
Tiago Teixeira is a filmmaker based in London. His debut feature film, Custom, premiered in March 2024 as part of the Frightfest strand at the Glasgow Film Festival, and has since been selected for several other festivals, including Razor Reel and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Tiago's short films have been showcased at prestigious festivals such as the London Short Film Fest, Encounters, Aesthetica, and Frightfest, with selections in BAFTA, Oscar, and BIFA qualifying festivals. He also contributed as a screenwriter for both seasons of HBO’s The Hypnotist. Tiago has been a speaker at events like the Encounters Film Festival, BFI Future Film Festival, and Aesthetica.
Known For

Natalio Arenas is a hypnotist who can put people into a trance and make them reveal their innermost secrets. But Natalio suffers from insomnia, which hides a secret of his own.
El Hipnotizador

Once upon a time, a miller attempted to marry his daughter off to the King by promising she could spin straw into gold. With the help of a demonic imp, she completes the task, but the King becomes greedy and wants more. So, she promises the imp her firstborn in return for yet more favours. But when it comes time to honour her bargain, dark forces merge when the Imp makes a deal with the devil.
Rumpelstiltskin

A homeless man living in a derelict building is obsessed with a vision of a mysterious woman that visits him every night. Inspired by a fable from the Santal Parganas Folklore.
Dog Skin

When a young woman moves to a room in London, she must figure out what is behind the strange happenings in her new house share before she becomes another victim of the mysterious presence living upstairs.
A Quiet Room in Walthamstow
Filmmaker Estela Renner analyzes the effects that mass media and advertising have on children, showing how the industry discovered that they are the best targets for selling products. In addition to listening to them, the film talks to parents who report how influential their children are at home and how this is directly linked to advertisements, and experts debate the negative effects of this exposure.
Criança, a Alma do Negócio

A couple producing custom erotic films is dragged into a nightmarish conspiracy when they start working for a mysterious client.
Custom

A woman has a foreboding dream.
Wrong Number

Two women meet on a rainy night, a crime has been committed, only one of them knows why.
Ride with the Guilt

A boy goes to sleep, but there's a monster under his bed.
Wake Up

A man breaks into an abandoned house and finds something disturbing buried in a heap of dirt.
Molar

Five disturbing nightmares, ranging from the eerie to the erotic, guaranteed to keep you awake at night.