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Reinaldo Pinto Almeida

Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Works on

  Minutos – Director/Writer/Producer - 2024 - 45. Max Ophüls Film Festival, short film competition, 2024 The Sacrifice of the Druids – Director/Writer/Producer - 2020 (7Min)- Indie Lisboa 2020 - Brand New Competition The House Behind the Post Office – Director/Producer, 2020 (10Min) - German Asian Artist Conference 2020 Landscapes in Times of Treason – Writer/Director, Liminoid Productions 2018 (15Min)– Festival Goldener Spatz 2018, Wolf Kino BlackxxxAsians 232 - Writer/Director – Film University Babelsberg 2017 (7Min) Das Apartment – Season II, - Writer/Director Co-Producer, 5 Episodes 2017 (36Min) - Spiegel TV, Achtung Berlin, Das Apartment – Writer/Director Co-Producer, 6 Episodes 2015 (43Min) – Winner of the 1st Yourturn Prize, Medienboard, Endemol and Youtube Webfest Berlin, Webfest Rio de Janeiro, Spiegel TV Erosion - Director – Film University Babelsberg 2014 (Omnibus Film) (6Min)- Dok Leipzig,- broadcasted on RBB, Filmmuseum Potsdam Sushila By The Sea – Director, Film University Babelsberg 2014 (10Min) – Dok.fest Munich 2015 (Megaherz Nominee) - broadcasted on Arte DE/FR in 2020 The Promise – Writer, Director and Producer 2011 (3Min)- Barcelona Human Rights Festival 2012, Cutas em Flagrante   Reinaldo Pinto Almeida is both a Portuguese and a German citizen as well as a holder of the Oversea Citizenship of India

  • Family
  • Colonialism
  • Exile

Country: Portugal

T-Port Partner: Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis

Webpage: http://grainofsalt.eu

Born in Lisbon the director studied Philosophy in Lisbon and later at Paris IV having completed his studies in 2007 with a degree from the Universidade de Lisboa. He then moved to Mumbai, India where he stayed before moving to Berlin, Germany where he is currently residing. He works as a freelance filmmaker in various departments and studied at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. He co-founded the Almeida/Kind GbR Production for his international short-form comedy series Das Apartment. He is currently developing various feature projects, fiction and documentary. Amongst them is A Border Within for which he received a research grant by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. His short film Sushila By the Sea was broadcast by Arte in France and Germany at the end of 2020. In 2017 Helle Nächte by Thomas Arslan, which he edited, premiered in the competition of the Berlinale. He has given workshops in film and improvised theatre for clients and institutions such as, Netflix Berlin, The Goethe Institute, GISMA Business School, CIEE Berlin, University of Leipzig, Asian Film Festival Berlin and Vision Kino. He holds a Licenciatura by the University of Lisbon, A BFA and MFA by the Film University Konrad Wolf. Reinaldo grew up speaking Portuguese, German, and English. He is fluent in French, proficient in Spanish and has basic knowledge of Italian and Hindi.

Project in development

Filmography on T-Port

Minutes

Denise, visits her father who lives in Berlin. He wants to rekindle, but Denise has...