DAVID BONNEVILLE

Mobile phone: 075000.58133      
E-mail: dbonneville@gmail.com                                                      
Residency: London, United Kingdom
Date of birth:  07th November 1978

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FILMOGRAPHY

       
L’Arc-en-Ciel     - 20:05, 2008
Director, writer and co-producer
Starring: Sofia Ferrão, Carloto Cotta, Nuno Casanovas, Jaime Freitas, Takuya Oshima and European Film Promotion ‘Shooting star’, Golden Globe and international film festival award winner Ana Moreira

Production: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ; David & Golias ; RTP2  (PT)

   
Heiko  - 13:00, 2007
Director, writer, editor and production designer
 
Starring: Cannes Palm d’Or winner Manoel de Oliveira’s regular actor José Manuel Mendes; and Jaime Freitas
Production: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT)  


FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS:

Slamdance Film Festival: World Premiere in competition:
Special Mention on the Festival’s 10th anniversary

Berlin International Film Festival - invited director to the Berlinale Talent Campus

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: selected director for The Long and the Short of It

RUSHES Soho Shorts Film Festival - international fiction category nomination

Transylvania International Film Festival - in competition

Filmul de Piatra, Romania - special section - Umbre

TLVFEST · Tel Aviv Gay Lesbian International Film Festival, Israel

IndieLisbon Film Festival - national and international competition

New York ImageOut: Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film Festival – in competition

Toronto InsideOut Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - in competition

Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – in competition

Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – in competition

Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - in competition

Brussels Pink Screens Alternative Film Festival - in competition

Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - official selection

QueerLisbon Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - in competition

Bratislava International Early Melons Film Festival, Slovenia

Danish Cinemateque/Kulturopa selection for the Portuguese Film Week in Copenhagen

Uruguayan Cinemateque selection for the Gulbenkian Foundation Film week, Montevideo

RollenWechsel – short film screened before award-winning feature at the Gay Pride Festival

X Theatre Festival - Theatre Studio Fontenova – official selection

ACERT - Cultural Association of Tondela - Gulbenkian Cinema retrospective, official selection

Mostra 08 - Technology and Management School of Mirandela / Mirandela Town Council - invited film

Cape Verde – Selected for the 150th anniversary celebration festival of Praia, Santiago Island

Germany, Austria and Switzerland - selected for distribution by Salzgeber

England and Ireland - selected for distribution by Peccadillo Pictures


Photo-booth - 01:00, 2007
Director, writer, camera and editor
Starring: Miguel Clara Vasconcelos, Maria Joana Figueiredo and José Biscaya
Production: TOM Foundation, Amsterdam ; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT)           

FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS:   
The One Minutes São Paulo
The One Minutes Rio de Janeiro
Film and Video Festival Encontros de Viana VIII
The One Minutes Open Festival, Belgium                               


The Balcony – 7:00, 2007 - based on the poetic prose by Filipa Leal     
Director and cinematographer
Starring: Filipa Leal (voice)                           
Production: Foundation for the Sciences and Development ; Campo Alegre Theatre (PT)     

FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS:
Exclusively produced for and exhibited at the monthly ‘Quintas de Leitura’ Poetry Venue at the Campo Alegre Theatre, Porto                                
Exhibited as video installation at the Japan Pecha Kucha Night Porto, Casa do Conto Guest House
       

Mock-up – 5:33, 2005
Director, writer and co-producer
Starring: Cannes Palm d’Or winner Manoel de Oliveira’s regular actress and European Film Promotion
‘Shooting Star’ Leonor Baldaque

Production: Katada Films (ES)      

FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS:
QuickFlick World International Short Film Festival
Honorable Mention:  Jury Official Selection for showcase in Barcelona, Berlin, London, São Paulo
Video installation at Graça.Brandão Contemporary Art Gallery - Porto and Lisbon                                 
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival market   
Barcelona Independent Film Festival - L’Alternativa



Le Déjeuner Répéter  - 2:30, 2004
Director, writer and camera
Starring: Maria Grazie and Francesco Flori
Production: Moebius TV ; Barcelona TV channel (ES)

FESTIVALS / SCREENING:
Exclusively produced for and shown on:
BoingBoingBuddhah TV programme nº136 - B.TV channel, Spain

Le Temps est Comme un Cercle  - 22:00, 2001
Co-director
Starring: European Film Promotion ‘Shooting Star’ and Cannes Palm d’Or winner Manoel de Oliveira’s
regular actress Leonor Baldaque
Production: Catholic University of Portugal (PT)
   
Superglue  - 17:00, 2000
Director, writer, editor

Starring: Cannes Palm d’Or winner Manoel de Oliveira’s regular actress and European Film Promotion
‘Shooting Star’ Leonor Baldaque; and Pedro Lamares

Production: Catholic University of Portugal (PT)



PRODUCTION
- Pre-Cannes Film festival assistant  HanWay Films · 2009
- Winner of the fund by the Gulbenkian Foundation / RTP2 (Portuguese public television channel) to produce a fiction film with an approximate duration of 30 minutes · 2008
- Location manager UK in Lost Persons Area by Caroline Strubbe (feature film) for Artémis Productions · 2008
- Product manager for the DVD distribution of Anime, Asian and American feature films and serials by Universal Pictures (more than two years of office experience: 2005/07)
- Art department daily in Fragile by Jaume Balagueró  Future Films / Filmax · 2004
- PA to Cannes Palm d’Or winner Manoel de Oliveira in the production of A Talking Picture · 2002
- Assistant to actors John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve and Stefania Sandrelli in the production of A Talking Picture · 2002
- Assistant in various international films, advertising and music video productions;  production companies including, Future Films, Artangel, Telfrance, Canal +, Gémini Films, Filmax, RCR Films, Madragoa Filmes; responsibilities included: Assistant to director, pre-production and production organization, team coordinator and script reader · 2000/05
- Production assistant in Berlin Special Prix Europa TV fiction Award winner · 2002
- Production assistant daily in A Distant Song by Pedro Serrazina · 2001



TELEVISION and JOURNALISM
- Cameraman (London correspondent) of news and reports for S.I.C. (Portuguese TV channel) (UK) · 2008
- Cameraman for report of Zanzíbar concert by musician João Afonso at L’Espai  B.TV  (ES) · 2005       
- Camera, scriptwriter, Interviewer and Presenter of Infos Idiomes weekly programme  Barcelona Television (ES) · 2004
  [Official reporter at Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004]
- Writer, translator, proofreader  IDEAR creativos de la comunicación (ES) · 2004
- Film critic of bilingual arts magazine Latitudes Cahiers Lusophones (FR) ·  2002/03    
- Film critic of digital cinema magazine C de Critica (PT/ ES/ FR) · 1999/04   
      

DIGITAL and TECHNOLOGY
Film editing on Adobe Première, Edit 5.0, Media 100, Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects software
Other software: Microsoft Office: e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point ; Internet. Shooting on DV; knowledge of photography
 

LANGUAGES
- Portuguese/English - mother tongue standard (born Portuguese; British educated)
- Fluent Spanish
- Conversational French
- Basic Italian and Catalan


EDUCATION
- MA Screenwriting and Producing for Film & TV - scholarship for academic Excellence by the University of Westminster, London. · 2008
- Film-directing course with the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy in Berlin) · 2007
- 5-year university degree in Sound & Image (UCP) · 1997/02
- Scholarship for Audio-visual Communication studies in Spain (UPF) · 2001/02
- Certificate of Proficiency in English  University of Cambridge · 1997