BIOGRAPHIE

José Mazeda was born in 1950, in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal. He attended the Conservatório Nacional, where he studied Cinema. He began working as a line producer and later, in the early 1980's, before this role was even established in the country, he became a producer. He worked with Fábrica das Imagens before founding Inforfilmes with Acácio de Almeida in 1989, where he stayed until the birth of his own production company, TAKE 2000. Throughout his carees, José Mazeda produced films from many prestigious filmmakers, such as António Reis e Margarida Cordeiro, João César Monteiro, Alberto Seixas Santos, António Campos, Paulo Rocha, Jorge Silva Melo, Fernando Matos Silva, António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Margarida Gil, José Nascimento e Rita Azevedo Gomes, Roman Polanski, Richard C. Bennet, Grigoriy Chukhray, Pierre Kast, Roberto Fazenza and Imanol Uribe. He won several international and national prizes for his films, one of which received a nomination for the Oscar of best foreign film from the Hollywood Academy. "Beyond the Mountains" is his first short film as a director and an homage to his childhood and culture.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2020 Para cá do marão Référent(e), Réalisation, Production, Scénario, Scénario
• 2001 Quando o Sol toca na Lua Production, Référent(e)