A software engineer who loves creating original stories whenever he has free time.
Carlos is a fictional author with more than 10 years of experience. He wrote 3 books, 3 stageplays and 18 screenplays (features, shorts, pilots), earning a total of 34 accolades. Carlos' preferred genre is sci-fi, but he also loves writing comedy, drama and action.
DOWNBURST is his most awarded script, having won the Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival, was placed in the Capital Fund Screenplay Competition 2025's Hot 100 and was 2 times on The Red List Top as Best Action Feature of the month. It has also been laureled as a semifinalist and quarterfinalist in other contests.
Other laurels include placements (with other scripts) as a semifinalist in the Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition 2023, Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition 2023 and Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2024, 2 honorable mentions in the New York Screenwriting Awards and a finalist in SWN Short Film Screenplay Competition Autumn 2023.
Carlos' writing career started after he attended some courses and workshops related with creative writing, screenwriting, directing and dubbing. Afterwards, he published 3 multi-genre tale books (De Conto a Romance published by Atlantic Books), wrote and produced dozens of sketches for a comedy animated web-series and lately he ventured on writing and submitting plays and scripts to competitions.
Professionally, Carlos is a full-time software engineer with an MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering, who worked as a developer on major companies such as Microsoft or Critical Manufacturing (where he currently is) and won 2 national engineering awards. But whenever he has free time, he loves creating original stories.
Honorable Mention
The Vigilante
New York Screenwriting Awards 2025 Summer Edition
2025
Quarterfinalist
The Vigilante
Page Turner Feature & TV Pilot GENRE & GENRE MASH-UP Competition
2025
Quarterfinalist
Downburst
Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2024
2025
Quarterfinalist
Downburst
New York International Screenplay Awards - NYISA 2025
2025
Official Selection
Downburst
Your Script Produced! 4th Edition Screenwriting Competition
2025
Quarterfinalist
Downburst
Page Turner Feature & TV Pilot GENRE & GENRE MASH-UP Competition
2025
Honorable Mention
The Captain Baloney Chronicles
New York Screenwriting Awards 2025 Fall Edition
2025
Quarterfinalist
The Last Exodus
Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition 2025
2025
Quarterfinalist
Abiliutopia
The Great Pitch Competition 2025
2025
Quarterfinalist
Abiliutopia
Page Turner Feature & TV Pilot GENRE & GENRE MASH-UP Competition
2025
Quarterfinalist
Narrated By You
Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition 2025
2025
Quarter-finalist
Narrated By You
Big Break 2025
2025
Quarterfinalist
Narrated By You
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2025
2025
Quarterfinalist
Shelpek Pizza
Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards The 10th Season
2025
Quarterfinalist
Shelpek Pizza
Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition 2025
2025
Semifinalist
Shelpek Pizza
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2024
2025
Quarterfinalist
Shelpek Pizza
ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition 2025
2025
Quarter-Finalist
The Captain Baloney Chronicles
Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition 2024
2024
Quarterfinalist
The Last Exodus
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Spring 2024
2024
Quarterfinalist
The Last Exodus
Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards Season 2
2024
Award Winner
Downburst
Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival
2024
Semifinalist
Downburst
Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 9
2024
Semifinalist
Downburst
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2023
2024
Semifinalist
Downburst
Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2024
2024
Quarter-Finalist
Boycotted by Prejudice
Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards Season 9
2024
Quarterfinalist
Definition of Love
SWN Short Film Screenplay Competition Winter 2022
2023
Quarterfinalist
Soul
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2023
2023
Semi-finalist
Obsessed
Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition 2023
2023
Quarterfinalist
Star Soldier
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Summer 2023
2023
Quarterfinalist
Star Soldier
Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards 2023
2023
Finalist
Boycotted by Prejudice
SWN Short Film Screenplay Competition Autumn 2023
2023
Semi-finalist
Boycotted by Prejudice
Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition 2023
2023
Honorable Mention
Obsessed
New York Screenwriting Awards 2026 Winter Edition
The Hot 100
Downburst
Capital Fund Screenplay Competition 2025
College
Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto
Integrated Master in Informatics and Computation Engineering
20052010
High School
Escola Secundária Afonso de Albuquerque
Birth City
Guarda
Current City
Porto
Hometown
Guarda
Gender
Male
Eye Color
Blue
Plays saxophone, piano and drums. Loves riding his bicycle either on the road or on the mountain.
A software engineer who loves creating original stories whenever he has free time.
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