Mário Cunha

Born in Lisbon, Portugal and former journalist, I'm a screenwriter since 2005. Since then I wrote more than thirty shows, including tv series, telefilms and telenovelas, produced and broadcasted on the three major TV stations in Portugal. I currently teach screenwriting at the World Academy, in Lisbon. As a screenwriter, I won some national and international awards. In 2010, I was co-author and script coordinator of the series "Naked City", winner of the International Film and TV Festival, in Moscow, in the category of Best Detective Television Series. In 2011 I won an Emmy in the category of Best Telenovela, as co-author of "Laços de Sangue". In 2016 I co-wrote “Terapia", the Portuguese version of the well-known series "Betipul”, which won the Best Fiction Program award from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores the following year. I was one of the writers of "Glória", the first Portuguese show for Netflix. I was the head writer for the series of telefilms “Told by Women” for RTP (2022-2023), in which I was also the author for two of telefilms: “Neighbors”, and “The Hour of the Wolves”. In 2022 I was selected to the first Boosting Ideas Sessions of the European Writers Club. There I developed "Creep", a true crime series, which was eventually selected for Seriesmania Writers Campus in 2023. Also in 2023 I was the head writer of the second season of the series "24 Land". In 2024, I'll be working on "Esteiros", a feature film that has already obtained funding from the Potuguese National Film Board.