José Alberto Pinheiro (born in Porto in 1980) is a Portuguese director, screenwriter and producer.
[1] Since then he directed, produced and written several fiction and documentary shorts, features and TV series.
In 2010 he directed Who's Baby Jesus Father?, written by award-winning author Manuel Jorge Marmelo, for the series Contos de Natal (Christmas Tales) broadcast by the channels of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal network, Portugal's public service broadcasting organization.
In 2012 he produced the documentary Time Does Not Exist,[3] featuring the geometric abstractionist painter Nadir Afonso.
In 2017 he produced and directed the documentary Contratempo, a film about the inclusion and rehabilitation of schizophrenia patients, through music and photography.