Tony Costa

Tony Costa was born in Hamilton/Ontario Canada in 1962, son of Portuguese emigrants. At the age of elementary school his parents moved back to their home land. After finishing High School around the 1980s Tony returned to Canada where he studied and worked in the film industry. He worked as a film lab technician in Toronto at Medallion Film Labs and begun working as a clapper loader in several shorts and music videos. Despite loving Canada he decided to return to Portugal in 1989 where he immediately started his film career in the camera department as a clapper loader. Since this date he has worked in many films as clapper loader, focus-puller, camera operator and up to cinematographer. He is now a cinematographer based in Lisbon and a professor at University of Lusofona. He was vice-president of IMAGO the European Federation of Cinematographers between 2004-2008 and was founder the of Portuguese Society of Cinematographers, and CPAV (The Film Professionals Association). He has published a book, a Manual for Camera Assistants's published by The Superior School of Cinema ESTC (Lisbon) and he is the publisher and editor of several websites related to Cinema. He has appeared as secondary actor in several films and directed documentaries. He has concluded his Master Degree in 2012 and directed his first short film O MEU AVÔ as director.