João Salaviza
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 19, 1984
- Birthplace
- Lisbon, Portugal
João Salaviza (Portuguese: João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; born 19 February 1984; Lisbon) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and former actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including the Short Film Golden Bear, the Short Film Palme d'Or, and the Un Certain Regard. João Salaviza was born on 19 February 1984, in Lisbon, Portugal. His father is José Edgar Feldman, a film director, and his mother is a producer. He studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His film Arena won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, his film Rafa won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Salaviza worked as assistant editor in Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl.
Filmography
The French Teacher 2026
Co-Producer
To Our Friends 2025
Producer
The Messenger 2024
Editor
The Buriti Flower 2024
Story, Editor, Director, Producer
Ketwajê 2023
Producer
The Dead and the Others 2019
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Russa 2018
Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
Elon Doesn't Believe in Death 2017
Screenplay
High Cities of Bone 2017
Editor, Director, Writer
In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo 2016
as Self
Mountain 2015
Director, Writer, Editor
Cerro Negro 2012
Director, Editor, Writer
Rafa 2012
Director, Screenplay, Editor
A Portuguese Film 2011
as Himself
Strokkur 2011
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Editor
Casa Na Comporta 2011
Writer, Director
Hotel Müller 2010
Director, Writer, Editor
Arena 2009
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl 2009
Assistant Editor
- Dedicated To The One I Love
Dedicated To The One I Love 2008
Editor
The Summer of Rita M. 2006
Editor
Two People 2004
Director
- Lumiar
Lumiar 2004
Assistant Director
Querença 2004
as Zé Manel
When It Thunders 2000
Actor, as Gaspar as a Child
- Da Invicta ao Sonoro
Da Invicta ao Sonoro 1997
Actor
L'Enfant du secret 1996
Actor
La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado 1996
Actor
Poor George 1993
as Nuno - Jorge's Nephew
Credits from TMDB.