Luís Barros is a Portuguese filmmaker, born in Viseu. He studied Filmmaking at ESAP, and Audiovisual Executive Production at MPXA - Máster en Produción Xornalística e Audiovisual, University of A Coruña in Spain. In 2025, he completed a specialization course in Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.  

Barros has worked in the production of film festivals and in the development of film and television projects in both Spain and Portugal. He has recently written and produced two short fiction films and has two documentaries in post-production. He is also developing new short and feature-length fiction projects.  

In 2024, he was a finalist in CNN/AGEAS New Talents in Audiovisual and a jury member at Festival Impacto. He often writes for the online magazine Cinema Sétima Arte, and in 2023 he contributed to the magazine’s 15th-anniversary book Cinema Sétima Arte: Velhos e Novos Testamentos, with the chapter ‘Art and Politics in the Cinema of Nanni Moretti’. He has attended multiple film festivals, including Festival de Cannes, San Sebastián, and BRIFF, among others.  

Alongside his work in cinema, his career in audiovisual bridges communication, journalism, and politics, from the European Parliament in Brussels to reporting for RTP at the Portuguese Parliament, experiences that continue to shape his perspective as a storyteller. He has also worked as a research scholar at the Lisbon School of Communication and Media Studies, taking part in the communications team of the UNESCO Chair of Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship. 

His cinema seeks not only to entertain but to linger, questioning, unsettling, and opening space for new conversations.