Tiago Hespanha
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1978-01-01 (47 years old)
Tiago Hespanha
Biography
He majored in architecture in 2004 and received a master’s degree in creative documentary from Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University in 2012. He has been a partner at the production company TERRATREME since 2008. In 2006 he participated in a workshop on documentary filmmaking held by the Ateliers Varan in Lisbon and produced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since then he has been working as a director in his own films and has taken on different roles in other projects. In 2009 he worked as a trainee at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. He teaches at the DOCNOMADS - European Documentary Master Course.
He directed the following films: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, co-directed with Frederico Lobo (2014 - World Premiere at “Visions du Réel”, Nyon, Switzerland); GUIDED TOUR (2009 - Audience Award at Indielisboa); THE GIFT FROM AFAR (2008 – Included in the collection "So close, So far" released in DVD by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation); “GROUND GLASS I, II” (2007 – First prize at Lisbon’s Microfilms Festival); SHOW HOME (2007) and QUINTA DA CURRALEIRA (2006 – Primeiro Olhar Award at “Encontros de Cinema e Video de Viana do Castelo”).
Acting
(2017)
Crew
Por Tua Testemunha
Screenplay
(2025)
Tomorrow Will Be Another Day
Producer
(2025)
We Are Two Abysses
Producer
(2024)
I Am Here
Producer
(2024)
Astrakan 79
Producer
(2024)
Clandestina
Producer
(2024)
When the Land Runs Away
Executive Producer
(2023)
Tommy Guns
Producer
(2023)
The Shimmering Bodies
Producer
(2022)
Nameless Heitor
Producer
(2019)
Ave Rara
Producer
(2019)
Destiny Deluxe
Producer
(2019)
Reynard
Producer
(2019)
Suzanne Daveau
Producer
(2019)
Outside the Oranges Are Blooming
Producer
(2019)
Lisbon Beat
Producer
(2018)
Campo
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
(2017)
High Cities of Bone
Producer
(2017)
The Nothing Factory
Screenplay, Producer
(2017)
Antonio and Catarina
Producer, Editor
(2017)
Cidade
Producer
(2017)
Tudo o Que Imagino
Producer
(2016)
Ama-San
Producer
(2014)
Industrial Revolution
Director, Writer, Sound, Director of Photography, Editor
(2009)
Cold Day
Sound Assistant
(2009)
Guided Tour
Director
(2009)
Latter-Day Saints
Additional Photography
(2007)
State of Exception
Editor