Vasco is a writer, director and editor from Lisbon, Portugal.
His work often explores psychological tension, spiritual undercurrents, and the place of the individual within society and the shaping of the human experience.
Whether through social commentary, intimate horror, or historical reflection, he aims to craft films that linger in the mind long after the screen fades, blending grounded emotion with elevated or psychological themes and visual poetry with social and philosophical depth.
Regardless of style or format, his work is always character driven.
From psychological drama to action thriller, from cyberpunk family drama to historical fiction, his work has been recognised for its intimate direction, lyrical tone, entertainment value and thematic ambition.
Some projects lean more toward arthouse aesthetics and philosophical inquiry, others toward genre, suspense, or emotional accessibility and often, both elements are intertwined. That tension between depth and immediacy is a defining aspect of his voice, one that respects both cinephiles and general audiences.
While not present in every project, his work is part of a tradition that reaches back to filmmakers like Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson, where spiritual themes are treated with cinematic gravity, as sources of tension, beauty, contemplation and inner conflict.
In an industry that often ignores or flattens the sacred, he isn’t afraid to revive the tone of serious spiritual cinema: restrained, lyrical, and emotionally haunting - capable of confronting silence, suffering, and transcendence without flinching.
His scripts have been awarded in some of the most respected screenwriting competitions in the world.
He is currently working on a series of three short films and releasing his first novel.
Cinema is not content
