Mário Veloso

Mário Veloso was born in Braga (Portugal), in March 1998.
After a brief passage through the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, he got a degree in Directing at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema.
His first film, Rio Torto (2019), a documentary made in an academic context, was awarded the Fernando Lopes prize for Best First Portuguese Film and the Portuguese Film and Pedro Fortes for Best Portuguese Film of the Green Years, at the 17th edition of DocLisboa – International Film Festival.