Sério Fernandes

Born: 1946-01-01

Sério Fernandes (Porto, 1946). He was an advertising director for Portuguese agencies and for Agence Havas. In 1974, he founded the production company Beifilme in Porto, where he produced and directed dozens of short, medium-length and feature films, including: “Coéforas”, “4'27‘’ do Mar de Francelos”, “A Entrada de Cristo no Porto”, “Nascimento do Sol Negro”, “Cisnes Negros”, “Viagem no Douro”, “Chico Fininho”, “Odisseu”, “Porto State of Art”. In 2003/04, he directed the feature films “Porto Porto” and “Quando eu Morrer vestir-se de Andorinha e voltar sempre na Primavera”. He was a teacher at ESAP between 1991 and 2015, teaching film directing. With his students, he shot dozens of films in Porto, from Minho to the Algarve, and in cities such as Paris, Barcelona and Brussels; in Africa, he shot the films “Morrer Sim Mas Devagar”, in Alcácer Quibir/Morocco, “Lava Crioula” on Fogo Island/Cape Verde and “Ecticoga” in Orango-Bijagós/Guinea Bissau. With former students, he has also filmed in Brazil, the Sertão and Amazonia, Macau and the Azores. The making of these films is based on the Quadro Artístico Cinematográfico, the absolute matrix unit of the aesthetically named Escola do Porto.


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A Imitação

as uncredited
Released: 2003-01-01

An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many...

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Sério Fernandes - The Master of Oporto’s School

as uncredited
Released: 2019-11-23

Forty years ago, Sério Fernandes was a television advertising director and owner of one of the...

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Chico Fininho

as Realizador
Released: 1982-04-29

Porto (Portugal), beginning of the 80s. A film crew seeks to understand if there's really the...

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Curtas

as uncredited
Released: 2020-01-01

Sitting in front of his farmhouse in Mirás, Sério reflects on a life linked to cinema. An...

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Um Vulto na Praça da Batalha

as uncredited
Released: 2019-01-01

A very unique and personal vision of this emblematic square in the city of Porto. A film of...

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Punk´s Not Dread

as Pai
Released: 2018-11-28

A short film directed by Tiago Afonso dedicated to Punkito, a key figure in Porto's punk scene.

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Segundo Porto

as uncredited
Released: 2017-01-01

Just as Christ carried his cross, Sério Fernandes carries one of his paintings between the...

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