Pedro Canais

Screenwriter

Lisbon, Portugal

Member Since:
April 2014

Last online:
2 weeks ago

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About Pedro

I'm a Portuguese novelist and screenwriter. After working as a promo producer for more than 20 years and as a script advisor for another 10, only for Portuguese TV, I decided to start writing screenplays for feature films and TV series in English. In the meantime, I was awarded with the PEN Club Prize for a first novel in 2005. In the last few years, screenplays for feature films and TV series for a global audience became my primary goal.

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Fortuna Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Thriller During the Spanish Civil War, a Portuguese businessman wants to sell to the Germans the raw material they need the most: tungsten. To achieve that, he will make his daughter and his two sons, to be accomplices in one of the dirtiest business in the world, promising each one a big fortune as a reward.
Perfection Ep 1/6 Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy When a middle-aged advertising executive is thrown out of his home by his wealthy wife, a young black prostitute convinces him to join forces and start acting like a gang of mobsters.
NEXT WAR Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ War Before the end of WWII, the most dangerous mental cases in the US Army were taken to a foreigh island. What the first nurse who voluntiered to take care of them had to learn could get the intire world readdy for the next war.
Golden Pots Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy Ambassador Ronald Slump and his wife Nastya are the new US representatives to a ficcional small country in West Europe. Their main effort from now on will be the unexpected quest for a mythical long lost item: Hitler’s golden bed pot.
LE CHARMANT Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Crime In the late 18th century, a beautiful old English Lady is accused of cutting the throat of a young Portuguese nobleman known by the name of Le Charmant. But King George III will send his own special envoy, who not only will solve the murder mystery, but also will prove an even more mysterious point concerning human kind.

Awards

Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition (2025)
(2025)
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (Summer 2025)
(2025)
Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (Summer 2025)
(2025)
Purple Sky International Film Festival (Winner - Best Television Script - Pilot)
(2024)
New York International Screenplay Awards - NYISA (2024)
(2024)
Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards (Season 9)
(2024)
Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood at AFM (Hollywood 2024)
(2024)
Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Fall 2024)
(2024)
Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards (Season 9)
(2024)
Pitch Now Screenplay Competition (Season 7)
(2024)
Creative Screenwriting TV Pilot (Quarter Finalist)
(2022)
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA) (Finalist)
(2021)
STORYLINE (Finalist)
(2020)
Page Turner Screenplays (Finalist)
(2020)
Madrid International Film Festival (Official Selection, best unproduced screenplay)
(2014)
Amsterdam International Film Festival (Screenplay Competition - finalist)
(2014)
Barcelona International Film Festival (Screenplay competition, 3rd place)
(2013)
Hollywood Screenplay Contest (Oficial Finalist)
(2013)
Cynosure Screenwriting Awards (quarterfinalist)
(2013)