Pedro Fernandes Duarte is the founder of the Portuguese film production company PRIMEIRA IDADE, which produced the most internationally acclaimed Portuguese film of 2020: the feature “The Metamorphosis of Birds”, written and directed by Catarina Vasconcelos, distinguished with the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film at the Berlinale's Encounters program, as well as 24 other international film awards, among them the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera prize for best film at San Sebastian IFF, the Grand Prix of the New Horizons Film Festival, the Best Film Award of the Vilnius IFF, the Special Jury Prize of the Taipei Film Festival, the Golden Apricot at Yerevan IFF, the Best International Documentary at Victoria Film Festival, or Best Film at Dokufest. Sold to more than 10 territories, from China to the USA. In 2017 PRIMEIRA IDADE premiered at Cannes Film Festival's Critics’ Week the fiction short film “Bad Bunny”, directed by Carlos Conceição, screened at numerous festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, New Directors/New Films in New York, among others, commercially broadcasted by ARTE TV. In 2019, the company premiered the fiction short-film “Ruby”, directed by Mariana Gaivão, screened at the IFF Rotterdam, Palm Springs, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, awarded Best Director at Curtas Vila do Conde. In 2019 as well, was released “Ghosts: Long Way Home” directed by Tiago Siopa, winner of the Best International Film Award at Jihlava's First Lights program, of the Doc Alliance Award for Best Film, and Best Project at DocLisboa's Arché in 2018. In April 2021 the company premiered the medium-lenght documentary “Sortes” at Visions du Réel in Nyon.
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