A brief biography

Sandro Mendes, was born in 1977 at the city of Porto, Portugal. In 1998, graduated in Project Design from the Árvore Artistic & Superior School.

He worked in architecture, industrial and graphic design. Parallel to these professional activities, was also a guitarist in a late 90s-00s post-punk revival band.

Around 2001, he was chosen to play a secondary role in an independent short film titled "Closer", which was promoted and acclaimed abroad in several international short film festivals. A year after, he collaborated with the same director, a minor helpful hand during the production, yet extremely valuable in the sense of an inner further growing interest in filmmaking.

In 2008, he relocated to South-East Asia, and Bangkok was the city of choice. There, he enrolled as a student in the International Institute SAE, aiming to expand his knowledge in the art of film making techniques. Soon after, in 2011, he graduated in Film Arts.


In between 2008-2011, Sandro Mendes wrote and directed three productions. His debut was a 7 minutes length neo-surrealist short film entitled "Coupe Rouge" aka "Red Cut". The second short film was a 30 minutes mini feature, entitled “From “S...” to “S...” and Thus Successively” which differed in style from the previous, having a much closer approach to an art-house/psychological-thriller genre. Last but not least Sandro finished his third mini-feature, "Little Daeng´s Mood for the Big Bad Escapism", a 16 mins lenght short film written and filmed in the same genre and style of his second work.


Aside his self-releases, other collaborations occurred in a recent past, as co-writer, actor and cinematographer. Worth to mention a few titles like: “Call it a night”; “Pedetes”; "Perenial Vow"; “All in your head”. Sandro Mendes also worked in the production of two music videos: “Roboter” by Reimstoff and “Fun Park” by Snatch.