Red Desert Films

Pedro Neves was born in Leiria in 1977. He graduated in Communication Science, did a post graduate course in Documentary (2002) and a masters in Culture and Communications, specialising in Documentary, where he wrote a dissertation about documentary in the 1974's portuguese revolution, in Porto University. He is a free-lance journalist since 1999. He collaborates with the Expresso newspaper. In 2007 he attended a course on documentary direction in the International School of Cinema and Television in San António de Los Banõs, in Cuba. In 2007 he directed his first documentary entitled “Gazing out to sea” (a olhar o mar – Portugal) and he won the public prize from the Festival of Cinema and Video in Vancouver, Canada. The same year, he co-directed a school short-film documentary “In the Barber's” (En la Barberia – Cuba). He Directed eight short film documentaries in black and white for Expresso Multimedia which form the work “Poverty in Porto” (Pobreza no Porto). In 2008 he founded an audio visual company (with Carlos Ruiz) called Red Desert. In 2009 he directed the documentary “The Forgotten” (awarded in International Festival Extremadoc, in Spain) and presented in Fantasporto (PT), Doclisboa (PT). In the same year he edited and was the cnematographer of “Roots”, by Carlos Ruiz, which was the best film in Independent Film Festival Bragacine (PT) and in the International Festival Filminho (PT). In 2010 he directed the documentary “Disagreements”, presented in Panorama do Documentário Português (PT). In 2011 he directed the short documentary “Cold Water”, presented so far in Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Fest (PT), DocLisboa (PT), Shortcutz Porto, Curtas Belo Horizonte International Film Fest (BR), in the international Competition of Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, International Film Festival of Guadalajara (Mexico), Mecal Short Film Fest fo Barcelona (Spain) and Regard Sur le Court Métrage (Quebec, Canada).