
Directing
Regina Pessoa
Born
1969-12-16 (56)
Place of birth
Coimbra, Portugal
Known for
Directing
Credits
22 titles
Regina Pessoa is a Portuguese animator and director who was born on the 16th of December, 1969. She was born in Coimbra, Portugal, but lived in a village near the city until she was seventeen years old. Without a TV, she spent her time reading, listening to the older ones telling stories and also painting her grandmother's house doors and walls using charcoal, encouraged by her uncle. She graduated in painting from University of Porto in 1998 and during her time as a student she took part in different animation workshops, having participated in Espace Projets (Annecy, 1995) with the short "A Noite", which she would finish in 1999. In 1992 she started working in Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema…
Known for
6.5This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012
6.3It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
The Night
1999
7.0Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )
Vicious Cycle
1996
6.7From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
2019
6.8A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
Tragic Story with Happy Ending
2005
X’mas wish-list that two brothers are writing is leading to them not wanting to share their desired toys once they get them for Christmas, so Santa Claus gives them one new toy, for both, for them two to share and play together with, so as to teach them a lesson in fellowship.
This Christmas I Wish For...
1998
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
X’mas wish-list that two brothers are writing is leading to them not wanting to share their desired toys once they get them for Christmas, so Santa Claus gives them one new toy, for both, for them two to share and play together with, so as to teach them a lesson in fellowship.
This Christmas I Wish For...
1998
7.0A Christmas Song!
Christmas Stars
1998
Behind the camera
6.5This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012
6.5This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.
Kali, the Little Vampire
2012
6.3It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
The Night
1999
6.3It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
The Night
1999
7.0Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )
Vicious Cycle
1996
7.0Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )
Vicious Cycle
1996
6.7From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
2019
6.7From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
2019
6.7From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
2019
6.8A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
Tragic Story with Happy Ending
2005
6.8A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
Tragic Story with Happy Ending
2005
6.8A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
Tragic Story with Happy Ending
2005
7.0The opening credits of the festival "Odyssey mas imagens" in Porto in 2001. (25 Sec. )
Odyssey in Images
2001
7.0The opening credits of the festival "Odyssey mas imagens" in Porto in 2001. (25 Sec. )
Odyssey in Images
2001
8.3All the lives of Cora Coralina in a poetic narrative in the voices, feelings and interpretations of six generations of great Brazilian actresses. A polyphony of the voices that inhabited Cora, revealed in prose, verse and images with its immense literary talent and human content. The film reveals the trajectory of Cora Coralina, from her childhood years to getting married and leaving Goiás, from the long period of 45 years lived in different cities in the state of São Paulo and her return to the City of Goiás, when she revealed herself to Brazil with the strength of his poetry.
Cora Coralina: Todas as Vidas
2017
NRAn animated logo from the Chantelouve production company symbolising the power of transformation and freedom, inspired by the Greco-Roman mythical she-wolf.
Chantelouve
2024
7.0A Christmas Song!
Christmas Stars
1998
7.0A Christmas Song!
Christmas Stars
1998

