Nominated twice for the Sophia Awards of the Portuguese Film Academy, Bruno Carnide is an independent portuguese director and founding director of Leiria Film Fest – International Short Film Festival.
Carnide directed several fiction, animation and documentary short films, which won dozens awards and have been exhibited in hundreds film festivals around the world, including Oscar Qualifying Festivals.
He is curator at Museum of the Moving Image, in Portugal, and also a lecturer in the field of cinema at Polytechnic of Leiria and Instituto Superior Miguel Torga.
As a freelancer, Bruno Carnide has directed hundreds of corporate and commercial videos for companies such as Google, Volkswagen, Ford, MTV, Nickelodeon, RTP or Schweppes. He is occasionally a jury member at International Film Festivals. (en)

Bruno Carnide (Leiria, 1987) é um realizador e produtor de cinema independente.
Realizou curtas-metragens de ficção, animação e documentário que venceram mais de quarenta prémios e foram selecionadas em centenas de festivais de cinema em todo o mundo, incluindo festivais qualificadores aos Oscars.
Da sua filmografia destaca-se a curta-metragem em imagem real “Fugiu. Deitou-se. Caí.” (2017), que venceu 12 Prémios e foi selecionada para mais de 40 festivais de cinema, incluindo o Festival de Cine de Huesca (Espanha) e Festival de Cine de Lebu (Chile), ambos qualificadores aos Oscars.
Em 2019, realizou a sua primeira curta-metragem de animação “Equinox” (2019) e mais tarde “O Voo das Mantas” (2021), ambas Nomeadas aos Prémios Sophia da Academia Portuguesa de Cinema, e com seleções em festivais portugueses como IndieLisboa, Cinanima, Monstra, FEST, Prémio Nacional da Animação ou Caminhos do Cinema Português.
Ao longo do seu percurso, destacam-se várias entrevistas e exibições de filmes em televisão; prémios em festivais como Medina del Campo (Espanha), Cinema on the Bayou (E. U. A.), Novos Talentos FNAC (Portugal), ShortCutz (Portugal), CinEuphoria (Portugal) ou Ymotion (Portugal); bem como seleções no InterFilm Berlin (Alemanha), St. Louis International Film Festival (E. U. A.), Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bélgica) ou Avanca (Portugal) e exibição no Instituto de Arte Contemporânea em Londres (Inglaterra).
Em 2013 fundou o Leiria Film Fest – Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens, do qual é director e programador. Desde 2017, é professor universitário na área do cinema no Politécnico de Leiria e Instituto Superior Miguel Torga. Em 2022, foi nomeado curador de cinema no Museu da Imagem em Movimento de Leiria.
É, ocasionalmente, jurado em festivais internacionais de cinema como o Tirana International Film Festival (Albânia), festival que qualifica aos Oscars e Prémios Europeus, Festival de Cine Piélagos (Espanha), São Tomé FestFilm (São Tomé e Príncipe), FEST – New Directors New Films Festival (Portugal), Ymotion (Portugal), Planos Film Fest (Portugal), entre outros.
Enquanto trabalhador independente, realizou centenas de vídeos institucionais, corporativos e outros, para empresas como a Google, RTP, Volkswagen, Ford, MTV, Nickelodeon ou Schweppes. (pt)

Awards

– Sophia Award Nominee for Best Animation Short Film “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – Portuguese Film Academy 2022
– Winner Best Portuguese Animation Film “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – Cineuphoria, Portugal 2022
– Winner Best Portuguese Animation Short Film “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – Golden Geeks, Portugal 2022
– Winner Best Portuguese Screenplay “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – Cineuphoria, Portugal 2022
– Winner Best Short Film of the Session “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – ShortCutz Aveiro, Portugal 2022
– Winner Top of the Year by Public Vote “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – Cineuphoria, Portugal 2022
– Winner Top of the Year Portuguese Films “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – Cineuphoria, Portugal 2022
– Winner Top Best Portuguese Short Films “The Flight of the Manta Rays” – Cineuphoria, Portugal 2022
– Sophia Award Nominee for Best Animation Short Film “Equinox” – Portuguese Film Academy 2020
– Honorable Mention for Best Animation Short Film “Solstice” – Farcume, Portugal 2021
– Winner Best Visual & Sound Effects “Equinox” – Cineuphoria, Portugal 2020
– Winner Best Animation Short Film “Equinox” – Ymotion, Portugal 2019
– Winner Best Screenplay “Equinox” – Ymotion, Portugal 2019
– Honorable Mention “Fall” – New Talents FNAC, Portugal 2019
– Winner Best Short Film of the Session “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – ShortCutz Covilhã, Portugal 2019
– Winner 2nd Prize Best International Short Film “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – Medina del Campo, Spain 2018
– Winner Special Jury Pize “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – ShortCutz Ovar, Portugal 2018
– Winner Best Photography “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – CinEuphoria, Portugal 2018
– Winner Top Best Portuguese Short Films “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – CinEuphoria, Portugal 2018
– Winner Best Original Soundtrack “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – Ymotion, Portugal 2018
– Winner Best Screenplay “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – Planos Film Fest, Portugal 2018
– Honorable Mention for Editing “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – Planos Film Fest, Portugal 2018
– Winner Best Screenplay “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – ShortCutz Figueiró dos Vinhos, Portugal 2018
– Winner 2nd Prize Best International Short Film “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – Urban Mediamakers, United States 2018
– Winner Best Original Soundtrack “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – ShortCutz Viseu, Portugal 2018
– Winner Best Short Film of the Session “Fled. Lay. Fell.” – ShortCutz Viseu, Portugal 2018
– Winner Best Local Short Film “Procissão do Enterro do Senhor” – Cinantrop, Portugal 2018
– Special Recognition “Manuel” – Development Film Festival, India 2015
– Winner Best Nacional Documentary “Manuel” – São Tomé FestFilm, Sao Tome and Principe 2015
– Winner Video Category “Manuel” – Jovens Criadores, Portugal 2015
– Winner Best Local Short Film “Lugar da Quinta Nova” – Cinantrop, Portugal 2015
– Winner Best Experimental Short Film “Hushed. Left. Jumped.” – FreeNetWorld Film Fest, Serbia 2015
– People Choice Award “Hushed. Left. Jumped.” – Vagrant Film Club, Belarus 2014
– Winner Video Category “Hushed. Left. Jumped.” – Jovens Criadores, Portugal 2014
– Honorable Mention “Red Dress” – InFrame 24H Film Festival, Portugal 2014
– Winner Video Category “The Light Darkened Within Thy Hair” – Jovens Criadores, Portugal 2013
– 2nd Prize Best Music Video “Nice Weather For Ducks – Back To The Future” – Farcume, Portugal 2013
– Winner Best Photography by Public Votes “Burial In Weak Land” – Moscars Al-Hurria, Egypt 2013
– Winner Top Best Portuguese Short Films “Burial In Weak Land” – CinEuphoria, Portugal 2012
– Winner Best Animation “Your Last Days As A Child” – Festival Até Breves, Portugal 2009