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Paulo Rocha

Paulo Soares da Rocha was born in Porto on 22 December 1935.
After finishing High School in 1953 he enters the Lisbon University’s Faculty of Law, and is active as a film collector.
Between 1959 and 1961 he attends the IDHEC (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques), in Paris, where he graduates in Direction. He works as a training Assistant Director with Jean Renoir in Le Caporal Epinglé.
In Portugal, he works as an Assistant Director with Manoel de Oliveira in Acto da Primavera and A Caça. He directs for the first time in 1962 in Verdes Anos, produced by António da Cunha Telles.
In 1966 he directs Mudar de Vida and in 1971 he is invited by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to film A Pousada das Chagas, about the Óbidos Museum.
He is chairman of the Centro Português de Cinema (Portuguese Cinema Centre) from 1973 to 1974.
Between 1975 and 1983 he is the cultural attaché of the Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo where he studies the life and work of Wenceslau de Moraes, which becomes the subject of his following films, A Ilha dos Amores and A Ilha de Moraes.
In 1987 he films O Desejado ou As Montanhas da Lua and in 1988 Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul, about the painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, for the television network RTP.

In: http://www.portoturismo.pt/en/a_cidade/cronologia/Cinema.asp

Links:

Biography: http://www.answers.com/topic/paulo-rocha
Paulo Rocha: http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=241306&mod=bio
Paulo Rocha's Vanitas hit the screens: http://www.cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=63201