He was born on 6 June 1967 in
Freiburgo, Germany and raised until nine years. From 1977 to 1979, he lived in
Guinea Bissau and then moved to
Lisbon, Portugal from 1979 to 2003. During that period, he studied at the Lisbon Theater and Film School and later founded the Pau Preto Theater Group in Lisbon. In 2003, he moved to
Luanda, Angola and appointed as the director of the Angolan Institute of Audiovisual and Multimedia Cinema (IACAM). ==Career==