Everything Will Be All Right

Artur Ribeiro is a writer-director and sometimes producer. After graduating from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, he wrote and directed several short-films that earn him several prizes at film festivals, while working for several TV shows as a writer and director. In 1995 he went to the USA where he lived between Los Angeles and New York City. It was there, in 1999, that he wrote the screenplay for his first feature film Double Exile, which he also directed. This feature film that was shot in New York, New Jersey and the Azores Islands, opened in theaters in Portugal in 2000, also following the film festival circuit. Since then, Artur has been living between NY and Lisbon, writing scripts for feature projects, like RPG Real Playing Game with Rutger Hauer, and working regularly as a writer-director for the Portuguese television, in more than a dozen TV Movies and several series and mini-series. In the meantime, he finished his PhD in Literature, from Universidade do Algarve, with a thesis on the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a Hollywood screenwriter. In 2018 he wrote and directed the feature filme Terra Nova, due to open in early 2020 but delayed because of the Covid-19 Pandemic. He also co-wrote a 13 episode TV series inspired by the movie which won the Portuguese Academy Award for Best TV Serie in 2021. During the lockdown, he produced and co-wrote and directed the first TV series shot at home for the Portuguese network RTP. The film Terra Nova finally opened in cinemas on October 28th 2021.