Luís Vieira Campos was born in Porto in 1964. He graduated in Film and Video from ESAP - Escola Superior Artística do Porto in 1989 and was a trainee director for Manoel de Oliveira on the shoot for the film Divina Comédia. He worked for RTP - Radiotelevisão Portuguesa as an Image Control Operator and was a member of the staff of Socivídeo and Alfândega Filmes, where he produced and directed a wide range of promotional and institutional films. He has been a trainer in Audiovisual and Multimedia Production at the Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Alquimia da Côr and Instituto Multimédia, among others. He was Film Programmer at the Studio Room of the TCA - Teatro do Campo Alegre, in Porto. In 2008 he founded Filmes Liberdade.
