David Bonneville is a Portuguese film director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and producer.
He currently lives in London

London

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 where he worked for the BBC.

Biography

Graduated in Sound and Image at the Catholic University of Portugal / Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. He received a Masters Degree in Screenwriting & Producing from the University of Westminster. He was also one of the selected directors for the prestigious Gulbenkian Foundation Arts Programme with the German Film Academy in Berlin (dffb).
Bonneville started his career as an assistant with Cannes Palme d'Or

Palme d'Or

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 winner Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...

, Jaume Balagueró

Jaume Balagueró

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 and Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon

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.

His short film Heiko

Heiko

Heiko is a Portuguese short film, directed by David Bonneville and produced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It is 13 minutes long.The film shows the perverse relationship between a 70-year-old aesthete and a young man named Heiko....

won the Best Short Film Award at the 24th Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and obtained a Special Mention at the 10th Slamdance Film Festival

Slamdance Film Festival

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, Park City, Utah, USA. Heiko

Heiko

Heiko is a Portuguese short film, directed by David Bonneville and produced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It is 13 minutes long.The film shows the perverse relationship between a 70-year-old aesthete and a young man named Heiko....

was nominated in New York

New York

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, Philadelphia, Toronto

Toronto

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, London

London

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, Paris

Paris

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, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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, Melbourne

Melbourne

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, São Paulo

São Paulo

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 and Turin

Turin

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He was selected to the Berlinale Talent Campus and his film is distributed by German-based Salzgeber, and UK's Peccadillo Pictures

Peccadillo Pictures

Peccadillo Pictures is a UK based film distributor of art house, gay and lesbian, independent and world cinema. They have provided distribution for many award winning films such as XXY, Eyes Wide Open, Four Minutes, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, Transylvania, Cockles and Muscles and Summer...

.

L'Arc-en-Ciel

L'Arc-en-Ciel (2009 film)

L'arc-en-ciel is a Portuguese short film directed by David Bonneville. It is a co-production by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / David & Golias / RTP2...

 is a 20 minute short-feature, winner of the Best Actress Award for Sofia Ferrão's electrifying performance (Mostralíngua '09 Portuguese Language International Film Festival). It is distributed by Bosque Secreto in Portugal and by ArtCinema in Russia.

Selected filmography

• 2012 - Gypsy
• 2010 - Eden
• 2009 - L'Arc-en-Ciel
  L'Arc-en-Ciel (2009 film)
  L'arc-en-ciel is a Portuguese short film directed by David Bonneville. It is a co-production by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / David & Golias / RTP2...
  
  
• 2008 - Heiko
  Heiko
  Heiko is a Portuguese short film, directed by David Bonneville and produced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It is 13 minutes long.The film shows the perverse relationship between a 70-year-old aesthete and a young man named Heiko....
  
  
• 2007 - A Varanda
• 2007 - Photomaton
• 2005 - Maquete
  Maquete (2005 film)
  Maquete is a Spanish-Portuguese video directed by David Bonneville. It was co-written with Camille Gobart and the cinematography is by Tatiana Arboleda...
  
  

External links

• David Bonneville - Official website
• Biography of David Bonneville at the Gulbenkian programme
• Profile at the Berlinale Talent Campus
• David Bonneville at the Internet Movie Database
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