André Gil Mata

André Gil Mata was born in 1978. Having studied mathematics, he has worked mostly in photography, theatre and film, and is one of the founders of the Portuguese photography and cinema laboratory in Átomo 47. In 2009, his debut short-film, WATER-ARK, has won several awards for having the leg shown at several international festivals, as well as his second short film, the HOUSE. GRAVEDIGGER, his third short film, has won the Mèlies d'argent, and in CAPTIVITY, his first feature-length documentary that won the DocAlliance Award at Cannes in 2013. Asked the Agent obtained his master's degree in film direction in 2012, at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, and finished his PhD at Film. Factory (Sarajevo), in 2016.