Tiago Hespanha
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”).
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1978-01-01
Known for
- The Nothing Factory (2017)
- I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) — Producer
- Ama-San (2016) — Producer
- Tommy Guns (2023) — Producer
- High Cities of Bone (2017) — Producer
- Campo (2018) — Director
- Industrial Revolution (2014) — Writer
- Cold Day (2009) — Sound Assistant
- Destiny Deluxe (2019) — Producer
- Tudo o Que Imagino (2017) — Producer
- State of Exception (2007) — Editor
- We Are Two Abysses (2025) — Producer
- Por Tua Testemunha — Screenplay
- Nameless Heitor (2022) — Producer
- Ave Rara (2019) — Producer
- Reynard (2019) — Producer