33 year old self taught filmmaker with a strong passion for experimental innovative filmmaking, who lives with fibromyalgia and crohn's disease and finances his own films by working as a janitor.
Filmography
Director (18 Credits)
Once upon a time in Torres Novas
Documentary, Experimental, Television
Metanoia2024
Feature
Urban Genome: A Paleoanthropological mapping of Homo-Urbanicus2024
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Dasein2023
Experimental, Feature
Longing for the future2023
Experimental, Feature
Once upon a time in Torres Novas (I)2023
Documentary, Experimental, Short, Television
SHI2023
Documentary, Short
Dasein Trailer2022
Other
PAIN: Stories of fibromyalgia2022
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Will to shit2022
Experimental, Short
Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto2021
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer2021
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
LaPalissada2021
Experimental, Short
Maricona2020
Experimental, Short
Pain: Stories of fibromyalgia2020
Documentary
Teaser - Pain: Stories of fibromyalgia2020
Documentary
No Contact2018
Documentary
REPLICANTE2016
Experimental, Short
Writer (14 Credits)
Once upon a time in Torres Novas
Documentary, Experimental, Television
Metanoia2024
Feature
Dasein2023
Experimental, Feature
Longing for the future2023
Experimental, Feature
Once upon a time in Torres Novas (I)2023
Documentary, Experimental, Short, Television
SHI2023
Documentary, Short
Dasein Trailer2022
Other
Will to shit2022
Experimental, Short
Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto2021
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer2021
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Maricona2020
Experimental, Short
Pain: Stories of fibromyalgia2020
Documentary
Teaser - Pain: Stories of fibromyalgia2020
Documentary
REPLICANTE2016
Experimental, Short
Acting (5 Credits)
SHI2023
Documentary, Short
PAIN: Stories of fibromyalgia2022
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Will to shit2022
Experimental, Short
Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto2021
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer2021
Documentary, Experimental, Feature
Producer (2 Credits)
Metanoia2024
Feature
Dasein2023
Experimental, Feature
Photographer (2 Credits)
Dasein Film Poster2023
Chiaroscuro collection2021
11 Awards & Selections
Best No Budget Film Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer
Sea of Art Moscow
2022
Best No Budget Film Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto
Sea of Art Moscow
2022
Quarter-Finalist Best Feature film Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer
2022,Aporia International village film festival Gangwon-do
2021
Selected Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer
PIFF Parana Internacional Films Festival 5 Edición Parana
2021
Best Experimental Film Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer
World Film Carnival Singapore
2021
Best International Feature Film Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto Trailer
Cinemaking International Film Festival Dhaka
2021
Selected for Best Feature Documentary Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto
First time Filmmaker Online Sessions Buckinghamshire
2021
Selected Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto
PIFF Parana Internacional Films Festival 5 Edición Panana
2021
Best International Feature Film Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto
Cinemaking International Film Festival Dhaka
2021
Quarter Finalist Best Feature film Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto
Aporia International village film festival Gangwon-do
I made "Fuck Haneke: Um filme de João Canuto" after being in the hospital and hearing the doctors say i might die. I asked to be released from the Hospital and went home to do the film. Spent little more than a week doing it while barely being able to stand.
'However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light!'