André Marques

Director · Writer · Cast

Born

October 23, 1984 · Setúbal, Portugal

Birth name

André Pereira da Silva Marques

André Marques (1984, Setúbal, Portugal) studied cinema at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and he is an awarded Portuguese writer/director. His work has been developed through various genres - fiction, experimental, documentary - with films and projects selected in several internationally renowned festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Palm Springs, Leeds, Vila do Conde, Gijón, Doclisboa, among others. Marques has been the subject of six retrospectives of his short-film works: by the Bucharest Cinematheque (Romania) in 2015, by the TV channels TvCine (Portugal) and FicBueu Film Festival (Spain) in 2016, by the Burgas Film Festival (Bulgaria), Ymotion Festival (Portugal) and Fundação Gulbenkian (Portugal) in 2017. He was one of the selected filmmakers for the Berlinale Talents 2016. André Marques is on pre-production of this first feature "O Bêbado" ("The Drunk").