ANTONIO SEQUEIRA, 29, is a Portuguese award-winning writer/director whose films have participated in a number of high-profile Academy Award and BAFTA Qualifying festivals.
Recently, he was named “25 Screenwriters to Watch” by American magazine “Moviemaker” and selected to the ZFF Academy.
‘Autumn’ was his debut feature film based on a script that was developed with the Torino Film Lab. As a work-in-progress, the film was selected to the “Goes to Cannes” section of the Marché du Film in the ‘Cannes Festival’, and eventually had its world premiere at the ‘Austin Film Festival’, winning the prestigious Audience Award.
At the end of 2023, ‘Autumn’ opened nationwide in cinemas in Portugal, being critically and commercially successful, receiving recently a nomination to the Sophia Awards by the Portuguese Academy of Cinema. In 2024, it was distributed by HBO Max, where it remained on the Top 10 Movies for 20 days.
As a writer, he sold a feature film script to Portuguese film studio, CINEMATE and started a Development Deal with Flynn Studios on a feature film project, entitled “Angel Boy”. In addition to selling a few more scripts, Antonio directed the limited series 'Instaverse' for Portuguese broadcaster, RTP.
He is also the founder of film production company Movie Monkeys and recently co-founded Kurious Studios with producer Steven Flynn and recurring creative partner, Anastasiia Vorotniuk.
Antonio is a graduate of the London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking and a member of BAFTA.
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Recently, he was named “25 Screenwriters to Watch” by American magazine “Moviemaker” and selected to the ZFF Academy.
‘Autumn’ was his debut feature film based on a script that was developed with the Torino Film Lab. As a work-in-progress, the film was selected to the “Goes to Cannes” section of the Marché du Film in the ‘Cannes Festival’, and eventually had its world premiere at the ‘Austin Film Festival’, winning the prestigious Audience Award.
At the end of 2023, ‘Autumn’ opened nationwide in cinemas in Portugal, being critically and commercially successful, receiving recently a nomination to the Sophia Awards by the Portuguese Academy of Cinema. In 2024, it was distributed by HBO Max, where it remained on the Top 10 Movies for 20 days.
As a writer, he sold a feature film script to Portuguese film studio, CINEMATE and started a Development Deal with Flynn Studios on a feature film project, entitled “Angel Boy”. In addition to selling a few more scripts, Antonio directed the limited series 'Instaverse' for Portuguese broadcaster, RTP.
He is also the founder of film production company Movie Monkeys and recently co-founded Kurious Studios with producer Steven Flynn and recurring creative partner, Anastasiia Vorotniuk.
Antonio is a graduate of the London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking and a member of BAFTA.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6487046/
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