Films
A year inside a Lisbon hospital's overnight cleaning crew. Premiered at IDFA, distributed in 14 territories. Shot almost entirely handheld between 11pm and 6am.
▶ VisitThree generations of a family running the last commercial salt pans in the Algarve. Won Best Cinematography at DocLisboa.
▶ VisitAir traffic controllers during the first months of the pandemic, when the sky emptied. Made for under €9,000.
▶ VisitMarble extraction in Estremoz, and what happens to a town when the stone runs out.
A single shift on a long-haul fishing boat, told in near real time.
Career
Develop, direct and shoot my own feature documentaries.
Four features and three shorts to date, financed through a mix of national film institute grants, broadcaster pre-sales and co-production.
Shot for other directors across documentary and branded work — roughly thirty projects.
Two of them taught me more than film school did.
Loading, pulling focus, carrying things up hills. The standard apprenticeship.
Craft
Training
Press & praise
Joaquín will wait four hours for a shot and then not use it. That patience is the whole reason his films feel the way they do.
Ferreira films labour without romanticising it — a discipline more documentarians should learn.