Miguel Ribeiro

Miguel Ribeiro (born in Sintra, Portugal, 1974) is a Portuguese screenwriter and filmmaker.

Ribeiro graduated in Political Science from Lisbon's Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias [1] in 1999. He went on to take film studies at New York Film Academy [2] in 2002, and in 2003 returned to Portugal to take a documentary filmmaking course at the Videoteca Municipal de Lisboa [3]. In 2005 he completed post-graduate studies at the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de Coimbra.

He attended Robert McKee's "Story Seminar" in 2008 and Linda Seger's writing workshop.

He lives and works in Sintra.