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António da Cunha Telles was born in Funchal, Portugal, in 1935. He studied cinema in Paris, at IDHEC and the Sorbonne, and began his career as a producer in 1962, in a trajectory spanning over six decades that helped shape modern Portuguese cinema. He produced works such as “The Green Years” (1963, 45th Mostra), by Paulo Rocha, and “Belarmino” (1964), by Fernando Lopes, as well as “The Ballad of Dog’s Beach” (1987), by José Fonseca e Costa, and “The Line of the Horizon” (1993, 18th Mostra), also by Fernando Lopes. He worked on international co-productions, such as “The Soft Skin” (1964), by François Truffaut, and “Belle Époque” (1992), by Fernando Trueba—winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film—as well as producing “Foreign Land” (1995, 29th Mostra), by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas. He founded the distribution company Animatógrafo, which introduced the Portuguese public to names like Eisenstein, Godard, Glauber Rocha, Andy Warhol, and Nagisa Oshima. As a director, he made seven feature films, including “The Circle” (1970), screened at the Cannes Critics’ Week and considered one of the most important films in the history of Portuguese cinema. He passed away in Lisbon in 2022.