Pedro Costa
- Birthday
- Aug 19, 1941
Bio: Spanish producer, director, and screenwriter Pedro Costa graduated from the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía in 1968, but never made a mainstream feature film until El Caso Almería/The Almería Affair in 1983. Shortly after graduation, the Barcelona native, an outspoken opponent of Franco's regime, made subversive militant film shorts under the name Film-Tracs.… More Bio: Spanish producer, director, and screenwriter Pedro Costa graduated from the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía in 1968, but never made a mainstream feature film until El Caso Almería/The Almería Affair in 1983. Shortly after graduation, the Barcelona native, an outspoken opponent of Franco's regime, made subversive militant film shorts under the name Film-Tracs. Costa then spent the '70s through 1982 working as a crime journalist. In 1984, Costa supervised, produced, and directed an episode of the two-part series La Huella del Crimen/The Traces of the Crime. He would direct the second in 1990. In 1991, Costa produced Vicente Aranda's Amantes/Lovers and Intruso/Intruder (1993). In 1997, Costa directed El Crimen del Oriente and produced Ricardo Franco's fact-based drama La Buena Estrella. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Filmography
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Cuchillo de palo (108) (2013)
- Actor
- 100%
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O Nosso Homem (2012)
- Director
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Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?) (2011)
- Director, Screenwriter
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Maison de lave (2011)
- Director
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Donde yace tu sonrisa escondida? (2010)
- Director
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Pedro Costa Videos
108: Cuchillo De Palo
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