João Pedro Plácido

Personal Info

Known For Camera

Gender Male

Place of Birth Lisbon, Portugal

João Pedro Plácido

Biography

João Pedro Plácido was born in Lisbon, 1979. He began directing and shooting music videos at age of nineteen, later on he attended the School of Theatre and Film (Lisbon) and the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (Potsdam - Babelsberg, Germany). He is fluent in five languages and has been working in features, shorts, documentaries and commercials all around the world since 2000, first as a camera assistant, and since 2009 as a cinematographer. His work has received national and international awards. (BE)LONGING is his first feature film.

Known For

Camera

2023
Carmen Troubles

as Director of Photography

2019
Unskinned

as Director of Photography

2018
Sousa Martins

as Director of Photography

2015
(Be)Longing

as Director of Photography

2013
Entrecampos

as Director of Photography

2012
Deportado

as Director of Photography

2002

Crew

2024
The Fortunate Ones

as Cinematography

2024
Maya and the Wave

as Cinematography

2019
Lupo

as Cinematography

2016
Paul

as Cinematography

2008
Access Road

as Cinematography

Director

2015
(Be)Longing

as Director

Art

2010
Eh Bien! Dansez Maintenant...

as Assistant Art Director

Writer

2015
(Be)Longing

as Writer