João Viana was born in Angola in 1966. In 1994, he got a degree in law by the University of Coimbra and studied cinema in Porto. He works in production, sound, story-board, directing and, finally, screenwriting. In 2007, he wrote Red Eyes for Paulo Rocha. In the meantime, he worked with the filmmakers José Alvaro, Rob Rombout, Filipe Rocha, Sagueneil, Seixas Santos, Cesar Monteiro, Grilo, Biette, Manoel de Oliveira, Schroeter and, in 2004, he started to direct his own films. With Iana Ferreira, he directed The Swimming Pool (Venice Festival). In 2013 his first feature film The Battle of Tabatô had its premiere. The film, which action takes place in Guinea-Bissau, got Honorable Mention in Berlinale 2013 in the category Best First Film of Festival. In 2009 Viana founded film production company Papavernoir .

Miguel Gomes is a Portuguese film director, born in Lisbon in 1972 and graduated from the Superior School of Theatre and Cinema. He started his career following the Portuguese film tradition of auteur cinema. He received several awards in national and international film festivals for his early works. His film Tabu, which takes place mainly in the colonial Africa, won the Prize of FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics) and Alfred Bauer Prize at the International Film Festival Berlinale 2012. Until now Gomes directed the following films: Entretanto (In the Meanwhile, 1999), Inventário de Natal (Christmas Inventory, 2000), Trinta e Um (Thirty-One, 2002), Kalakitos (2002), A Cara Que Mereces (The Face You Deserve, 2004), Cântico das Criaturas (Creatures' Song, 2006), Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (That Dear Month ...

Pedro Costa, a Portuguese film director, was born in Lisbon on 3rd of January 1959. He studied cinema in Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and belongs to the first generation of students that started a professional cinema activity in the 90's. Besides being one of the most known Portuguese directors overseas, he is also considered one of the most original. He dedicates himself mostly to the cinema inspired by the concept of visual anthropology and uses frequently the genre of docufiction. An important part of his work portrays inhabitants of an old Lisbon neighborhood Fontainhas inhabited mostly by Cape Verdian immigrants. To this part of his work belong such films as Bones (1997), In Vanda's Room (2000), Colossal Youth (2006) and Cavalo Dinheiro (2014).