
Rodrigo Areias
Biography
Producer and Director.
He started his studies in Management at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
With a degree in Sound and Image by the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University, he also has a specialization course in Film Direction from the Tisch School of Arts at the University of New York and the Eurodoc production program.
He worked as a trainer in the workshops promoted by the association Filhos de Lumière.
Throughout his career, he has developed creative works in the field of cinema, authoring fiction and documentary, alternating with other works in the fields of video art and video clips for some of the best names in the Portuguese rock scene (The Legendary Tiger Man, Wray Gunn, Mão Morta, Sean Riley, D3o, etc.) and several other projects. As a producer he started his career in 2001 and has since produced and co-produced more than 70 shorts, features, videos and documentaries. He produced renowned authors such as Edgar Pêra, João Canijo and F. J. Ossang, as well as young filmmakers such as André Gil Mata, João Rodrigues and Jorge Quintela. He has co-produced with Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Finland. As a director, among several films, Tebas (long metregem) and Corrente (short film) stands out with whom he was represented in more than fifty international festivals and was awarded with a dozen prizes. His second feature film premiered in Official Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Festival and was awarded a Special Mention. He was responsible for the cinema production of Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, including films by directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurismaki, Peter Greenaway, Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Victor Erice
Directing (17 movies)

Hay Road
2012

1960
2013

A Arte da Memória
2021

Ornament and Crime
2015

The Worst Man in London
2024

The Keeper
2015

Flow
2008

A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor
2024

Tebas
2007

Tamed
2011

Cold Pixel
2018

Golias
2010

Cinema
2014

Blue Breath
2018

Surdine
2020

Down by Life
2020

Nova '78
2025
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Lisboa-Boa 345 A.E. | 2000 | Producer | 
| Heavy Architecture | 2007 | Producer | 
| Punk Is Not Daddy | 2007 | Producer | 
| Tebas | 2007 | Screenplay | 
| Tebas | 2007 | Producer | 
| Flow | 2008 | Producer | 
| Flow | 2008 | Screenplay | 
| Arca D'Água | 2009 | Producer | 
| Golias | 2010 | Writer | 
| Mazagão, a Água que Volta | 2011 | Producer | 
| Beard | 2011 | Producer | 
| The Scoundrel | 2012 | Producer | 
| To the Wolf of Madragoa | 2012 | Producer | 
| Hay Road | 2012 | Screenplay | 
| Hay Road | 2012 | Producer | 
| Luís | 2012 | Producer | 
| Tavern Man | 2012 | Producer | 
| Historic Centre | 2012 | Producer | 
| The Gravedigger | 2012 | Producer | 
| CineSapiens | 2013 | Producer | 
| The Imperfect Cradle | 2013 | Producer | 
| 3x3D | 2013 | Producer | 
| Carousel | 2013 | Producer | 
| 1960 | 2013 | Screenplay | 
| 1960 | 2013 | Producer | 
| Luminita | 2013 | Producer | 
| Far from Eden | 2013 | Producer | 
| Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater | 2013 | Producer | 
| Escala | 2014 | Producer | 
| Carrotrope | 2014 | Producer | 
| Cinema | 2014 | Writer | 
| Lisbon Revisited | 2014 | Producer | 
| A Caverna | 2015 | Producer | 
| Over El Cielo | 2015 | Producer | 
| The Portrait | 2015 | Producer | 
| The Keeper | 2015 | Producer | 
| The Keeper | 2015 | Writer | 
| Ornament and Crime | 2015 | Producer | 
| Ornament and Crime | 2015 | Screenplay | 
| The Cause and the Shadow | 2015 | Producer | 
| The Amazed Spectator | 2016 | Producer | 
| Por Diabos | 2016 | Producer | 
| Penumbria | 2016 | Producer | 
| Delírio em Las Vedras | 2016 | Producer | 
| Drop by Drop | 2017 | Producer | 
| O dia em que as cartas pararam | 2017 | Producer | 
| Terrain Vague | 2017 | Producer | 
| The Everlasting Man | 2017 | Producer | 
| Porto | 2017 | Producer | 
| Fade Into Nothing | 2017 | Producer | 
| Lovers on Borders | 2017 | Producer | 
| O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta | 2018 | Producer | 
| Slope | 2018 | Producer | 
| Blue Breath | 2018 | Writer | 
| Blue Breath | 2018 | Producer | 
| Punk´s Not Dread | 2018 | Producer | 
| Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real | 2019 | Producer | 
| O Toucador | 2019 | Producer | 
| Magnetick Pathways | 2019 | Producer | 
| Arquivos Kino-Pop | 2019 | Producer | 
| Quantic Love | 2019 | Producer | 
| Purpleboy | 2019 | Producer | 
| Surdine | 2020 | Producer | 
| Ursula | 2020 | Producer | 
| Tie | 2020 | Producer | 
| Our Kingdom | 2020 | Producer | 
| Listen | 2020 | Producer | 
| Down by Life | 2020 | Writer | 
| Infinite Sea | 2021 | Producer | 
| Sycorax | 2021 | Producer | 
| Lethes | 2021 | Producer | 
| Around Rocha’s Table | 2021 | Producer | 
| A Arte da Memória | 2021 | Producer | 
| Love Lights | 2022 | Producer | 
| Ana Morphose | 2023 | Producer | 
| The Nothingness Club | 2023 | Producer | 
| Maria | 2023 | Producer | 
| Seagulls Cut Through the Sky | 2023 | Producer | 
| Espinho | 2023 | Producer | 
| Dulcineia | 2023 | Producer | 
| Garrano | 2024 | Producer | 
| A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor | 2024 | Producer | 
| A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor | 2024 | Executive Producer | 
| A Pedra Sonha Dar Flor | 2024 | Screenplay | 
| Telepathic Letters | 2024 | Producer | 
| Stop. Rehearsal Rooms for a Historical Materialism | 2025 | Producer | 
| Ariel | 2025 | Producer |