
Fernando Sá Machado
Directing
Biography
Fernando Sá Machado was born on October 7th 2004, in Braga, Portugal. He studied Visual Arts at Alberto Sampaio High School before completing his degree in cinema at the School of Arts of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His approach to filmmaking, photography, music, writing and plastic arts is DIY and cathartic by nature, expressing his search for humanness in art. He is one of the founders of the riz000ma collective, whose members share this sentiment.
Known For

The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.
Oxymoron Life...

All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations.
BULIR

Eduardo, an 8-year-old boy who is obsessed with outer space, spends a weekend at his absent grandfather's house. This brief period of time will prove to be eternalized in his memory for the love that has blossomed from it.
Love Made a Sphere

A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.
vvvamor

In the year of 2022, a late teenager and their friends film moments they would prefer not to forget: their long season.
longseason

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.
AA-PROXIMA-SUN

Rua de Santa Catarina, a street that was formerly home to dozens of local businesses and hundreds of Porto residents, now sees a crowd of tourists attracted by the cheap, disposable amenities that are popping up everywhere at once. Gentrification has decontextualized Portuguese culture, rendering the landscape uncanny. The Basin Woman, a symbol of the female workers of the historic Bolhão Market, is chased down by seagulls in the midst of this transcendent chaos.
Basin of Souls

A punk scarecrow, endowed by life, annihilates its roots and revitalizes its territory.
KUEBIPUTO

The twin brothers who invented the "dab" tell their story.
ly débora

An intimate glimpse into 3 years of serene moments, compiling video, polaroids and other things that were lying around when editing.
Urute vv

A rural traditional family lives day by day without knowing how to communicate with each other, making tension rise between them.