Person
Tiago Hespanha
Directing · Born 1978-01-01
Biography
He majored in architecture in 2004 and received a master’s degree in creative documentary from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University in 2012. He has been a partner at the production company TERRATREME since 2008. In 2006 he participated in a workshop on documentary filmmaking held by the Ateliers Varan in Lisbon and produced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since then he has been working as a director in his own films and has taken on different roles in other projects. In 2009 he worked as a trainee at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. He teaches at the DOCNOMADS - European Documentary Master Course. He directed the following films: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, co-directed with Frederico Lobo (2014 - World Premiere at “Visions du Réel”, Nyon, Switzerland); GUIDED TOUR (2009 - Audience Award at Indielisboa); THE GIFT FROM AFAR (2008 – Included in the collection "So close, So far" released in DVD by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); “GROUND GLASS I, II” (2007 – First prize at Lisbon’s Microfilms Festival); SHOW HOME (2007) and QUINTA DA CURRALEIRA (2006 – Primeiro Olhar Award at “Encontros de Cinema e Video de Viana do Castelo”).
Known for

Industrial Revolution
Director

Astrakan 79
Producer

Suzanne Daveau
Producer

The Nothing Factory
2017

Lisbon Beat
Producer

Clandestina
Producer
Cidade
Producer

Latter-Day Saints
Additional Photography

Destiny Deluxe
Producer

Guided Tour
Director
Filmography
- 2025I Only Rest in the StormProducer
- 2025We Are Two AbyssesProducer
- 2024I Am HereProducer
- 2024Astrakan 79Producer
- 2024ClandestinaProducer
- 2024When the Land Runs AwayExecutive Producer
- 2023Shimmering BodiesProducer
- 2023Tommy GunsProducer
- 2022Nameless HeitorProducer
- 2019Outside the Oranges Are BloomingProducer
- 2019Suzanne DaveauProducer
- 2019Lisbon BeatProducer
- 2019ReynardProducer
- 2019Ave RaraProducer
- 2019Destiny DeluxeProducer
- 2018CampoDirector
- 2017The Nothing Factory
- 2017Antonio and CatarinaProducer
- 2017Tudo o Que ImaginoProducer
- 2017High Cities of BoneProducer
- 2017CidadeProducer
- 2016Ama-SanProducer
- 2014Industrial RevolutionDirector
- 2009Cold DaySound Assistant
- 2009Latter-Day SaintsAdditional Photography
- 2009Guided TourDirector
- 2007State of ExceptionEditor
- 2007O Presente que Veio de LongeDirector
- 2006Quinta da CurraleiraDirector
- —Por Tua TestemunhaScreenplay
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