Miguel Gonçalves Mendes is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He has directed four feature films and eight short films since 2002, a filmography that took him to renowned film festivals around the globe. In 2010 he directed the 117-minute documentary José and Pilar, a walk through the last years of life of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, José Saramago and his wife Pilar del Rio, a moving love story of humanistic reaching. The film, co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo and Fernando Meirelles’ O2, gathered very positive reviews and prompted a unique popular movement in Portugal. Recently Miguel announced he will be adapting José Saramago’s The Gospel According to Jesus Christ with an international screenwriter and a foreign cast and crew.
