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).
