Leopardo Filmes

Created in 2007 in Lisbon, Leopardo Filmes continues to support the production of Clap Filmes and the work of more than 30 years of producer, exhibitor and distributor Paulo Branco.

His films are a regular presence at the major film festivals in the world: Cannes, Venice, Berlin, New York, Toronto, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, among others, having already been a jury of the Berlin Festivals in 1999; Venice in 2005, Rotterdam in 2006, Lecce and Locarno (chairman of the Jury) in 2011. Leopardo Filmes is the producer of LISBON & ESTORIL FILM FESTIVAL, a festival that invests on the interconnection of diverse cultural proposals: from cinema to literature, through music and the fine arts; and affirms itself as a propitious place to the reflection and discussion of the themes that mark the present - by the interlacement of filmmakers, thinkers, artists and the public.

Throughout its ten editions (2007/2016) has already had the presence of the most varied personalities of the national and international artistic and cinematographic scene, such as David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci; Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg; Juliette Binoche; Louis Garrel; Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi; Catherine Deneuve. Isabelle Huppert; Julião Sarmento, Paul Auster; Don DeLillo; J.M. Coetzee; Rui Horta, David Byrne; Cindy Sherman, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Frears, John Malkovich, Matthew Barney, Paul Giamatti, Yasmina Reza, Luc Dardenne, James Gray, Arnaud Desplechin, Aleksandr Sokurov, Vhils, Abdellatif Kechiche, Fanny Ardant, Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson, Abel Ferrara, Willem Dafoe, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin, Peter Handke, Baltasar Garzón, Philippe Garrel, Emanuel Ungaro, Andrzej Zulawski among others. Leffest

Leopardo Filmes also distinguishes itself as the main distributor of independent film in Portugal.