Rafael Condessa is a portuguese director, screenwriter and photographer born on the 29th of September 2007 in the district of Portalegre inside the Alentejo province. As a child he first took interest in stop motion and 2D animation, but not long after he saw cinema as his go-to way of storytelling and artistic expression, making his first DYI independent "feature" film at 13 years old with a crew of friends. Since then he has had many diferent projects like the found-footage experimental horror "Elliot" in 2021 and his most recent short-film "Cascas"(2026).