Biography
Portuguese producer, director, and occasional actor Joaquim Pinto entered the film industry following studies in sound recording at the Escola de Cinema at the Conservatório Nacional. Following his graduation in 1979, Pinto immediately found work as a sound recordist and continued in that capacity through 1987, when he became a producer and a director through his own production company, Grup de Estudos e Realizações (GER). Pinto directed his first film,
Uma Pedra no Bolso/A Stone in the Bag, the following year. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide