Bruno de Almeida

Bruno De Almeida
Filmmaker Bruno de Almeida
Born	Bruno de Almeida (1965-03-11) 11 March 1965 (age 52) Paris, France
Years active	early 1980s-present

Bruno de Almeida (11 March 1965) is a New York/Lisbon-based filmmaker.

Bruno de Almeida was born in Paris of Portuguese origins. He has lived between New York City and Lisbon since 1985.

Bruno de Almeida started his artistic career has a musician in the New York downtown music scene in the mid 80's. He was a guitarist with Graham Haynes fusion band No Image playing in several clubs in New York City. Along with Mr. Haynes, he formed an experimental music duo playing in such places like The Knitting Factory and The Roulette. He played guitar with The Saheb Sarbib Quintet at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and had a Jazz duo with guitarist Sérgio Pelágio. Bruno de Almeida went on to compose music for film and dance pieces. He wrote music for choreographers Francisco Camacho, Vera Mantero, Paulo Ribeiro, among others.

In 1988, Bruno de Almeida joined Film/Video Arts in NYC where he became a filmmaker starting out as a cameraman and film editor. He photographer several shorts and music videos for other filmmakers learning the technical craft hands on. At Film/Video Arts he made his first short film Anti-Glamour, a documentary about photographer Pepe Diniz.

Bruno de Almeida went on to open his production company Arco Films in 1990 as an outlet to produce his own films. His first directorial job was a video concert of the legendary singer Amália Rodrigues "Amália Rodrigues, live in NYC" which was shot at NY's Town Hall. The video was distributed by EMI.

In 1992, Bruno de Almeida directed the film "The King in Exile" about the dance piece by choreographer Francisco Camacho which played on television and Festivals worldwide. He has collaborated with Mr. Camacho since then.

Bruno de Almeida's first dramatic film, The Debt, starring Scott Renderer, Kristen Johnston and Paul Lazar, won the award for best short at the Cannes Film Festival Critic's Week in 1993 and had a long run playing in 85 film festivals. The film won another eight awards and was subsequently released theatrically ahead of features, and broadcast in several countries.