Vasco Gil

Biography

Vasco Gil is a Portuguese filmmaker and visual artist working across documentary, animation and experimental film. They were born in Porto and grew up in a small village in northern Portugal. While studying Cinema, Gil began exploring documentary filmmaking, co-directing Sensible Soccers: Manoel. In 2024, they began developing a feature-length documentary centred on a painter and the village where they grew up, a project that remains ongoing. Around the same period, they began exploring animation, developing Made of Tiny Boxes, a traditionally animated short film, and later directing Before…