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).  

Rui Simões is a Portuguese film director and producer born in Lisbon on 20th of March 1944. He dedicates himself to political cinema (documentary) and theater and ballet filming. He left Portugal in 1966 for political reasons (to avoid participating in colonial war). Simões lived in Paris and Brussels where he attended the course of Film and Television Directing in Institut des Arts de Diffusion. He came back to Portugal after 25th of April and since then works as a film director, producer and cinema professor. He is responsible for production company Real Ficção. By now he directed the following films: Deus, Pátria, Autoridade (God, Homeland, Authority, 1976), Bom Povo Português (Good Portuguese Peoples, 1980), Ensaio Sobre o Teatro (Essay About the Theater, 2006), Ruas da Amargura (Streets of Bitterness, 2009) ...