Professional Scriptwriting Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our scriptwriting roster covers feature, episodic, documentary, commercial, branded-content, and digital-short formats in European Portuguese (distinct from Brazilian Portuguese), English, and bilingual mixed-language scripts where shoots cross the Lusofonia frontier. Writers come from the AAPI (Associação dos Argumentistas Portugueses) membership, Escola Best de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC) graduate pipeline, and the Lisbon and Porto staff-writer pools at RTP, SIC, and TVI TV networks. Scripts deliver through Final Draft, WriterDuet, Highland 2, or Fountain markdown formats with scene numbers and shooting-script formatting on request.

Here is how the picture comes together. Development funding pathways flow through ICA (Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual) development-strand grants, Portugal Film Commission script-development rebates, EU MEDIA Programme development support, Eurimages co-development funds, and Lusofonia bilateral co-production script funding with Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé.

Here is the short of it. Portuguese scriptwriting carries a strong literary custom — adaptations of Fernando Pessoa (many identities mined for Wim Wenders' Lisbon Story in 1994), José Saramago (Nobel laureate 1998, Blindness adapted by Meirelles 2008), António Lobo Antunes, Miguel Torga, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Eça de Queirós feed both domestic and global shoots. First scripts from Manoel de Oliveira's century of writing-directing through 2015, Pedro Costa's Fontainhas Trilogy collaborative writing, Miguel Gomes' formally ambitious Arabian Nights trilogy and Grand Tour (2024 Cannes Best Director), and today's voices including João Pedro Rodrigues, João Salaviza, Marcelo Felix, Cláudia Varejão, and Susana Nobre keep the field active.

Here is what we have to work with. Global references have Bille August's Night Train to Lisbon adapted from Pascal Mercier in 2013, Ira Sachs writing Frankie set in Sintra in 2019, and Netflix's 1899 in 2022 working Portuguese maritime history. Rights clearance routes through SPA / GDA / AudioGest, IGAC type flags ship with each shooting script, and CNPD/RGPD compliance covers real-person depictions.