José Miguel Ribeiro

José Miguel Ribeiro (Amadora, Portugal, 18 January 1966) is a Portuguese film director.

Biography
José Miguel Ribeiro was born on 18 January 1966 in Amadora, Portugal. Just studying Fine Arts at the School of Belas-Artes from Lisboa and started working as a draftsman in 1990.

Start making a short animation in 1994 among the highlights O Banquet dóna Rainha and O Ovo. In 1999 done A Suspeita, short with which he was awarded 26 international awards, highlighting the Cartoon d'Or in 2000. In 2004, he made a cartoon series of 1.40 minutes Home Things that consists of 26 episodes, where the protagonists are the things that are in a house: the mop, the toothbrush, the glasses, the vacuum cleaner etc. The series was honored with several international awards.