Luís Urbano

In 1996 he founded the production cooperative Curtas Metragens, CRL, which is behind the Curtas Vila do Conde festival, of which he was the director, and was also in charge of the Portuguese Short Film Agency between 2000 and 2005. In 2005 he founded, together with Sandro Aguilar, the production company O som e a fúria, leading on the most outstanding contemporary Portuguese cinema, producing the films of filmmakers such as Miguel Gomes, João Nicolau, Salomé Lamas, Manoel de Oliveira, Eugène Green and Ivo Ferreira, among others. In addition, through this company, Urbano has co-produced Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, 9 fingers by F.J. Ossang, Ira Sachs’ Frankie, and João Nicolau’s Technoboss.

Festival de San Sebastián