Vasco Saltão
Directing
Biography
Vasco Saltão was born in Lisbon in 1979, and graduated from the School of Theatre and Cinema. He has been working professionally in Cinema since 2002, on Script, Assistant Direction and Image. Is lasted film, Rare Bird (2019), was showed and awarded in international festival as Curtas Vila do Conde, Brive Film Festival and 2annas ISSF. Currently, he's preparing his first long-feature, Etiópia.
Known For
A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.
Bad for a Moment
"I've been on this cliff for almost a year, here on the lookout. Always aware of the sea and the enemy, even though I've never seen him. The man riding a horse gave me a new order, to be even more on alert, waiting for a mirage, for a ghost that will not come."
Nameless Heitor
They all say that you killed an Angel. Who says that ? They. It’s not an Angel. It isn’t ? No. It’s a rare bird, just like you and me.
Ave Rara
Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta seeks in the emptiness of her body a way to arrive to her inner essence, in an abstract search of a free spirit that might end in her own enclosure.
Reynard
An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native island to work as a domestic in Europe, the other to return for good.