JR Villar Scriptwriter / Producer

About me

João Luís Losada Roque Rei Villar, was born in Lisbon, in 1969 and raised in Cascais, his family’s town in Portugal. Cascais is a magic, mythic place. The town of refuge for the kings during World War II. The Spanish, Italian, French, Bulgarian and Romanian royal families and many artists like Zsa Zsa Gabor took shelter in the glamorous hotels near the beach in Estoril and Cascais. Ian Fleming started the adventures of James Bond at the Hotel Palacio in Estoril, due to his own experiences when he also lived in the hotel. Living in this aura just next door to his school, from an early age J.R.Villar showed an above the average creativity in many different subjects, especially in music, acting, illustration and storytelling. In 1988 directed is first short animated cartoon, “La vie en Gris”, for the event Animathon International by the hand of the Academy Nominee André Leduc and the National Film Board of Canada. For this short animation film (16mm) J.R. Villar won is first world praise, an “honour special”. This was the first step in the Film and Television career. In 2011 J.R.Villar moved to the United Kingdom and lives in York. In the UK was invited to be part of a pitch panel for creative writing students at the Brighton University.

Questions Projects Experience Team

Projects

FUMO SOCRATESFormer Portuguese prime-minister smokes in a forbidden place, some weeks after the restricted law against smokers made by his government.
BARBA e CABELO (Hair and Beard)Series of Animations for the Sports newspaper "A BOLA" . Original Illustrations by Luis Afonso.
OUT OF MY WAYA short film about real events.
THE LIFE IN GREY - La Vie en grisMy first work in film (1988) A short animation directed at the Animathon International and produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Academy nominee André Leduc.
THE BOXA short movie from 2009. A man gets trapped inside a box...
PERFECT HEARTPERFECT HEART – Perfeito Coração (2009-2010) J.R.Villar wrote on 81 of 160 Episodes. Produced for SIC Televisão by SPTelevisão. Pêpê Rapazote was in the cast, and was also seen in the US version of SHAMELESS as Nando.