Alexandre Oliveira studied production management at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He has worked in film production management and executive production with leading names in the Portuguese and European film industry: João César Monteiro, Manoel de Oliveira, Paulo Rocha and Werner Schroeter. He was a programmer at the Portuguese Cinematheque - Museum of Cinema with João Bénard da Costa. In 2001, he set up Ar de Filmes, a production company that promotes film and theatre projects. The company includes Companhia Teatro do Bairro and a 120-seater venue in Bairro Alto with a theatre, music and dance programme. It has produced over 20 plays in recent years. In the last years, he has made over 10 films with João Botelho ranging from documentaries and feature films, and also produced Margarida Gil, André Marques e Ariel de Bigault films. He has also done important work in film distribution by creating a new circuit system to ensure that audiences get to see the films by projecting them in large municipal theatres. O Filme do Desassossego which is based on a work by Fernando Pessoa, is one of the most viewed films in Portugal in the last 10 years with an average of over 200 spectators per session. Os Maias adapted from Eça de Queiroz made over 150.000 spectators in the first realease in Portugal.
In 2015, Alexandre Oliveira was distinguished by the Academy of Cultural Producers with the Natércia Campos Award “for his ability to put himself at the service of a significant diversity of creators, languages, artistic fields and promoters, defending the artistic project near the audiences.”
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