{"id":1182,"date":"2020-03-23T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ff.lemons.pt\/sobre-nos\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:22:43","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fronteirafilmes.pt\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFronteira Filmes<\/span><\/h1>[vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text”]Film Production[\/vc_column_text]
<\/div>[vc_column_text]Fronteira Filmes is an independent film production company based in Porto, Portugal, focused exclusively on documentary and fiction cinema. Since its foundation, it has built a strong identity through films that challenge contemporary realities and propose a sensitive, reflective engagement with the world. With a deep commitment to both aesthetics and ethics, Fronteira approaches cinema as a space for poetic expression, political reflection, and a meeting point between intimacy and collective experience.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Fronteira Filmes has earned national and international recognition with films screened and awarded at multiple festivals. Notable works include A Quem Possa Ouvir-me (1999), a fiction feature awarded at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival; Shadows (2001), selected for competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival; the acclaimed documentary Retrato (2004), recognized in Madrid and Tui; Ra\u00edzes (2009), awarded in Braga and Minho; and CRU (2017), an observational documentary premiered at Dok Leipzig and honoured at the Avanca International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The company is known for embracing collaborative processes and for respecting the unique rhythm of each project. It values what is seen and what remains off-screen, working with multidisciplinary teams and filmmakers who believe in cinema as a space for resistance, imagination, and listening. Creative freedom, artistic rigor, and care-based relationships are at the core of its working environment.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/12″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Other recent highlights include Alentejo, fim de tarde (2018), a short environmental documentary; Dividual (2021), a socially-driven film screened at festivals in Sweden, France, and Italy; and O C\u00e9u em Queda (2024), the company\u2019s second fiction feature, a lyrical reflection on love and the enduring weight of consequences, scheduled for release in 2025.<\/p>\n

Currently in production is Magma, a documentary exploring the lives of abandoned and institutionalized children, supported by the Portuguese Film Institute (ICA). The film continues Fronteira Filmes\u2019 commitment to urgent themes and sensitive, grounded storytelling.<\/p>\n

More than just a production company, Fronteira Filmes is a space for thinking and feeling the present through cinema. Its work is defined by a search for cinematic forms that restore dignity to the stories being told, with deep respect for the singularity of each life and the poetic force of the image.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row section_type=”container-width” rc_bg_type=”color” equal_column_height=”equal” rc_bg_color=”#ededed”][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/6″ z_index=”4″]

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Carlos Ruiz<\/span><\/h2>[vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text” css=”.vc_custom_1588603024592{padding-top: 32px !important;}”]Works as producer and director since 1990.
\nHe has produced and directed several shorts, features and documentaries over the years and received several awards.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_style=”small-text” css=”.vc_custom_1585055977642{padding-top: 16px !important;padding-bottom: 32px !important;}”]carlosruiz@fronteirafilmes.pt[\/vc_column_text]
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Joel Brand\u00e3o<\/span><\/h2>[vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text” css=”.vc_custom_1588603038187{padding-top: 32px !important;}”]Works as producer and director since 2012.
\nHis professional career has taken place in cinema and audiovisual production.
\nHe has produced numerous audiovisuals projects and several fiction and documentary films.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_style=”small-text” css=”.vc_custom_1585056121320{padding-top: 16px !important;padding-bottom: 32px !important;}”]joelbrandao@fronteirafilmes.pt[\/vc_column_text]
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