Bruno de Almeida started his artistic career has a musician in the New York downtown music scene in the mid 80's.

He played guitar with The Saheb Sarbib Quintet at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and had a Jazz duo with guitarist Sérgio Pelágio.

In 1988, Bruno de Almeida joined Film/Video Arts in NYC where he became a filmmaker starting out as a cameraman and film editor.

In 1992, Bruno de Almeida directed the film "The King in Exile" about the dance piece by choreographer Francisco Camacho which played on television and Festivals worldwide.

Almeida continued his collaboration with Mr. Camacho with the film for the dance piece RIP in 2010 also shown at Lisbon's Culturgest and other festivals.

In 2005, he completed his fourth feature film, The Collection, a compilation of 24 short stories that were developed and created with a group of New York actors and writers over a four-year period.

Bruno de Almeida's Bobby Cassidy: Counterpuncher, a feature documentary on the former professional boxer from Levittown, New York was played at DocLisboa Festival and was released theatrically in 2009.

Bruno created a multimedia installation called "Esse Olhar Que Era Só Teu" with guitarists Tó Trips and Pedro Gonçalves (from Dead Combo) which was exhibited at CCB/The Berardo Museum in Lisbon and later as a concert-film.

In 2012, he directed Operation Autumn, a political thriller about the 1965 killing of General Humberto Delgado by the Portuguese fascist police.

The result was the Lecture starring John Frey and Ana Padrão which was shown in Film Festivals, broadcast on television and release on DVD.

Featuring extraordinary musicians like Graham Haynes on Cornet, Ricardo Toscano on Alto Sax, Mário Franco on bass and Frank London on trumpet, the album is a hybrid of acid jazz, spoken word, fusion, world music and alternative urban fusion.

Bruno returns to music with a sonic and lyrical universe that recalls his best independent film work where comedy and drama organically mix with decaying urban landscapes and off-beat characters.

Bruno's new album Cinema Imaginado (Volume 2) was released on January 27, 2023, and once again features and eclectic group of world-class musicians such as Graham Haynes on cornet, Ricardo Toscano on sax and Mário Franco on bass.

Continuing in the style of Volume 1, this album is a hybrid of acid jazz, fusion, fado, electronics and spoken word.