Projecto Global

Born in Portugal shortly after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 into a family of actors, Ivo M. Ferreira has been immersed in theater and film from an early age. He began his technical and artistic training in Lisbon, then applied to the London International Film School and the University of Budapest, before ultimately deciding to travel to China, a place that would profoundly shape his personal and professional life. There, he set up a small production company in Macau and directed his first film. He has worked as a photographer, actor, producer, director, and lighting designer.

Invited by the Universal Exhibition of 1998, he directed the award-winning short film O que foi, and shortly afterward, his first feature film, Em Volta (2002). In 2006, he received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to attend a Screenplay Writing course at the London International Film School, which led him to write and direct Águas Mil, screened at several film festivals in 2009.

In 2010, he commercially released The Foreigner and Vai com o Vento — the first commissioned by RTP to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Handover, and the second exploring Chinese immigration in Europe. In 2016, he wrote and directed Letters From War, a feature film based on the homonymous book by António Lobo Antunes, which premiered in the Official Competition at the Berlinale. His next film, Empire Hotel, shot in Macau, was released in 2018. Projecto Global is his most ambitious film to date.