- Content Director for SP Televisão since 2007. Teaches at ESCS - School of Communication and Media studies and at the UCP - Catholic University of Lisbon. Vice-coordinator of the Portuguese team of OBITEL - Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction. In 2011, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela with Laços de Sangue. In 2013, he was nominated for the Sophia Awards, from the Portuguese Cinema Academy in the category of Best Original Screenplay with Assim Assim. In 2016, he won the gold medal at the New York Festival's World's Best TV and Films with Coração d'Ouro.- IMDb Mini Biography By: SP Televisão
- Biography: Pedro Lopes (Lisbon, August 18, 1976) is a Portuguese screenwriter, graduated in History from the Universidade de Lisboa, with a Master's degree in Communication, Cinema and Television, and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the Universidade Católica de Lisboa. Since 2007 he has worked as Content Director for the TV production company, SP Televisão. Simultaneously, he is a professor in a Master' degree on Audiovisual and Multimedia and in a post-graduation course in Storytelling, at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social; he is also a professor in a Master's degree of Communication, Television and Cinema, at the Universidade Católica de Lisboa. Still in the academic scope, he is researcher of the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC), at the Universidade Católica de Lisboa, and vice-coordinator of the Portuguese team of the Observatório Ibero-Americano da Ficção Televisiva (OBITEL). He has written for both cinema and television, having been the author of more than twenty titles, between short and feature films, mini-series, series and prime-time soaps. His works have been present at the major international television festivals.
Career: Pedro Lopes began as an author at Casa da Criação where he collaborated in the writing of several TVI prime-time soaps like Saber Amar, Queridas Feras and Morangos com Açúcar. In 2007 he moved to SP Televisão, becoming Content Director and writing series for RTP and prime-time soaps for SIC. At SIC he debuted as the lead author in Perfeito Coração, starring Ricardo Pereira and Sandra Barata Belo, which was the first solo soap by the author. It was followed by Laços de Sangue, the first co-production between SIC and Globo under the supervision of Aguinaldo Silva, and which won an International Emmy awarded by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In 2011 he wrote Dancin' Days, the Portuguese remake of Globo's hit soap opera written by Gilberto Braga and broadcasted in the late 1970s. Also in 2011, he won the special jury prize with the TV series Cidade Despida, at the International Festival of Detective Films and Television Programs, in Moscow. The following year he wrote Sol de Inverno, starring Maria João Luís and Rita Blanco. In 2013 he was nominated for the Sophia Awards, of the Academia Portuguesa de Cinema, in the category of best original script with the feature film Assim Assim. In 2015 he signed Coração d'Ouro, whose shooting took place between Porto, Douro, Lisbon and the Azores, having won a gold medal at the New York Festival's World's Best TV & Films.- IMDb Mini Biography By: SP Televisão - Content Director for SP Televisão since 2007. Teaches at Escs - School of Communication and Media and at the UCP - Catholic University of Lisbon. He is president of APAD - Portuguese Association of Screenwriters and Playwrights and vice-coordinator of the Portuguese team of OBITEL - Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction. In 2011, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela with Laços de Sangue. In 2013, he was nominated for the Sophia Awards, from the Portuguese Cinema Academy in the category of Best Original Screenplay with Assim Assim. In 2016, he won the gold medal at the New York Festival's World's Best TV and Films with Coração d'Ouro. In the same year, he co-authored the Portuguese/Spanish series "Auga Seca", with the premiere of the second season for 2021, as an HBO original. In 2020, Netflix announced "Glória", its first Portuguese original series, created by Pedro Lopes.
Graduated in History from the School of Arts and Humanities in the University of Lisbon, MA in Communication, Cinema and Television from Catholic University of Portugal and doctoral student in Communication Sciences from ISCTE-UIL. He started as a screenwriter at Endemol and later passed by NBP (now Plural). Since 2007 he has been Director of Content at the production company SP Televisão and lecturer in the School of Communication and Media Studies and Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. As an academic he gave conferences at the University of São Paulo (USP), in Brazil (2014, 2018, 2020), MIP Cancun (2015), New York University - Steinhardt (NYU) (2019), and the most recent presentation was made at the congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), in Vancouver (2021). He has written for film and television and is the author to over twenty titles among shorts, feature films, telenovelas, mini-series, series, like "Conta-me como Foi". His work featured in the main international festivals: Rockie Awards-Banff World Media Festival; Prix Europa; Festival de la Fiction La Rochelle; Monte-Carlo Television Festival; Roma Fiction Fest. In 2011, he won the jury's award at the International Festival of Detective Films And Television Programs in Moscow for his series "Cidade Despida" and an International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela for "Laços de Sangue". In 2013 he was nominated for the Sophia Awards by the Portuguese Cinema Academy in the category of Best Original Screenplay with his feature film "Assim Assim", and the movie "O Dia Mais Feliz da Tua Vida", that he wrote the script, was nominee for best short-movie in the same edition of Sophia Awards. In 2016 he won the Gold Medal at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards with "Coração D'Ouro". In 2019 he was personally nominated for Best Screenwriter at the Seoul Drama Awards, competing against Jed Mercurio (Bodyguard), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and Claire Wilson and Mike Lesslie (Little Drummer Girl). In the same year, he co-authored the Portuguese/Spanish series "Auga Seca", which was aired on RTP, TVG and HBO. This series was greenlit for a second season as an HBO original. In 2020, Netflix announced "Glória", its first Portuguese original series, created and written by Pedro Lopes.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sp televisão
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