Pedro Lopes
General Content Director, SP Televisão , Portugal

Screenwriter, producer, academic, and researcher, Pedro currently serves as the General Content Director at SP Televisão, one of Portugal’s leading media groups.

He received an International Emmy Award in 2011 for Laços de Sangue and was nominated by the Portuguese Academy of Cinema for Best Original Screenplay for the feature film Assim Assim (2013). In 2016, he won a Gold Medal at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards for Coração d’Ouro, and in 2019, he was nominated for Best Screenwriter at the Seoul International Drama Awards.

That same year, he co-wrote Auga Seca, a Portuguese-Spanish co-production that aired on HBO. Pero is the creator and showrunner of Glória, the first Portuguese original series for Netflix. Glória won the Sophia Award (Portuguese Cinema Academy) for Best Series/TV Film, a Portuguese Golden Globe for Best Fiction Project, and received pre-nominations for the Platino Ibero-American Awards in the categories of Best Series Creator and Best Series.

Pedro is also the creator and showrunner of the Brazilian Globoplay series Codex 632 (2023), which earned a Bronze Medal at the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards. In 2024, he wrote the Prime Video documentary Sr. Presidente and the coming-of-age drama Os Eleitos, which earned a Bronze Medal Streaming Drama at New York Festivals TV&Film Awards and Best Children & Youth at World Media Festivals. He serves as executive producer of the international co-productions Refúgio do Medo (with Iceland) and Algodão a Frio, currently in post-production and slated for release in 2025.