Manuel Mesquita
- Actor
- Music Department
- Composer
![This could be the story about the encounter between Simao and Teresa. Simao is a teenager almost like a child, loner, inflexible, narcissistic, destructive and suicidal that attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. But does Teresa exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjA3OTUxOTA4Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDE2NTg3Mg@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,48,500,281_.jpg)
Manuel Mesquita was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1977. He has a degree
in Social Anthropology but has been working mainly in several cinema
related activities since 2002. He composes music for films and plays
minor roles: he is a regular cast member in films by João Nicolau who
gave him his first lead role in "A Espada e a Rosa"(2009). Usual
collaborator of the Portuguese production company O Som e a Fúria, he
has appeared in movies by Miguel Gomes and Sandro Aguilar, among
others. Being a multidisciplinary artist, he labored in production,
editing (sound & video), voice narration for documentaries and has made
both video and sound installations in the context of Art exhibitions.