Chico Pereira

Chico Pereira

Born 1979
Almadén, Spain

Biography

Chico PEREIRA (1979, Spain) grew up in Almadén and was educated in Film and Media at the Scottish Screen Academy in Edinburgh. After making several short films he had his feature-length debut with his graduation project Pablo's Winter, about a retired mineworker. The documentary won several prizes at IDFA and Leipzig DOK festival. Donkeyote (2017) is again situated in Pereira's country of birth, with another wilful elderly man as the main character.

International Film Festival Rotterdam

Director

Documentaries
2021

My Love: Six Stories of True Love (series)

 

Spain: Nati & Augusto (E02)

2017

Donkeyote

2012

Pablo's Winter

 

Polaris

Short
2011

Disco

2009

The Way to Macondo

Screenwriter

Documentaries
2017

Donkeyote

Short
2009

The Way to Macondo