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Pedro Pinho was born in Lisbon and has lived in Paris, Barcelona, Maputo, Mozambique, and Mindelo, Cape Verde. In 2009, together with five other filmmakers, he founded the production company Terratreme. His first documentary, “Bab Sebta” (2008), co-directed with Frederico Lobo, won an award at FIDMarseille. He also directed “The End of the World” (2013), screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, and “Trading Cities” (2014), co-directed with Luísa Homem, which premiered at FIDMarseille and at Art of the Real at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2017, his first fiction feature, “The Nothing Factory,” premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where it won the critics’ prize. The film later won several awards at festivals worldwide.