João Leitão

 

Director

Leitão is a Portuguese director, screenwriter and producer. With Filipe Melo he co-wrote and co-directed the humorous TV series Um Mundo Catita (2008). On his own he directed the short feature drama O Grande Monteleone (2011) and the pilot for the humorous TV series Capitão Falcão (2011). In 2015, this idea was developed into a feature film with the same title that parodies the fascist super-hero in the time of Portuguese military dictatorship.

Filmography


Films by this director

The Portuguese Falcon

(Capitão Falcão, Portugal, 2015)

Directed by: João Leitão
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mario Costa
Synopsis:

This action comedy tells the story of the (super)hero captain Falcão (Falcon). Helives in the past in 1968, during the dictatorship in Portugal, and he is directly responsible to the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar. He fights the emergent “red threat” of communism as well as feminism and any other indication of change and development. He is not alone in his patriotic fight, Puto Perdiz is his faithful and capable right hand.

color, digital, 106 min
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