Born in 1950, he has produced and co-produced more than 300 films, Awarded by the Locarno Film Festival, among others, he was awarded by the French Republic and, in 2017, awarded by the Guadalajara Film Festival. We are talking about Paulo Branco, the Portuguese producer who has now been awarded with Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts by the World Cultural Council. The Cinema and Audio-visual council (ICA) underlines that the award «finally recognises the Portuguese producer’s dedication to a new vision of cinematographic expression and his commitment to cultivate an intense communication and activity between the different areas of Culture, Literature, Fine Arts and Music». The World Cultural Council is an international organization founded in 1981 and headquartered in Mexico, composed by 124 scientists and academics, presidents of universities and executives from the five continents. For the first time awarded to a Portuguese, the ceremony will take place in October, in the city of Tsukuba, where the researcher Zhong Lin Wang will also receive the world Science award Albert Einstein.
