Directing
João Gonzalez
Born
1996-02-11 (30)
Place of birth
Porto, Portugal
Known for
Directing
Credits
6 titles
João Gonzalez (Porto, 1996) is a Portuguese director, animator, illustrator and musician with classical training in piano. In 2022 he premiered his first funded film “Ice Merchants” in Cannes Film Festival, winning Best Short Film in Competition from the Semaine de La Critique Jury, which would later become the first Portuguese film to be nominated for an Oscar®, and the most awarded Portuguese film in history, with more than 150 international awards. João has a great interest in combining his musical background with his artistic practice in animated cinema, always playing the role of composer and occasional instrumentalist in all the films he makes.
Known for
7.0Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.
Nestor
2019
7.8Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Ice Merchants
2023
6.0"The Voyager" is an animation short film about a pianist living in a big metropolis, who suffers from agoraphobia (irrational fear of leaving home/public places) and is confronted with a need to go outside, to replenish his medications.
The Voyager
2017
Behind the camera
7.0Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.
Nestor
2019
7.0Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.
Nestor
2019
7.8Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Ice Merchants
2023
7.8Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Ice Merchants
2023
6.0"The Voyager" is an animation short film about a pianist living in a big metropolis, who suffers from agoraphobia (irrational fear of leaving home/public places) and is confronted with a need to go outside, to replenish his medications.
The Voyager
2017
6.0"The Voyager" is an animation short film about a pianist living in a big metropolis, who suffers from agoraphobia (irrational fear of leaving home/public places) and is confronted with a need to go outside, to replenish his medications.
The Voyager
2017