Currently, Miguel is at the post-production stage of his new documentary, The Meaning of Life, produced by Fernando Meirelles, which has been dealing with issues to raise finishing funds.

The Elephant's Journey, the book that narrates the adventures and misadventures of a pachyderm transported from John III of Portugal's court to that of the Austrian Archduke Maximilian, is the departing point of a movie that portrays the relationship between Nobel Prize winner José Saramago and his wife Pilar del Rio.

[4] It got a run in the United States, which included an exhibition in the MoMA,[5] collected praise from publications like Variety[6] and The New York Times,[7] and got shortlisted for Best Original Song at the Oscars with Já Não Estar (written by José Mário Branco and interpreted by Camané).

"[8] Miguel and Brazilian writers Tatiana Salem Levy and João Paulo Cuenca travelled to the Far East for a sharing of experiences with artists and thinkers from Macau, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.

However, as the series progresses, the intended veracity of the diary quickly morphs into a full-blown original fictional narrative that won’t allow the viewer to know what is real anymore.

[9] The protagonist is Giovane Brisotto, a young Brazilian man, bearer of a rare incurable disease of Portuguese origins, spread throughout the globe 500 years ago, during the Discoveries.

But it is the viewer who, in parallel narratives, gains privileged access to the private and quotidian universe of each one of them, discovering what’s behind their personas, followed and idolized by millions who search for a reference for their lives.

At its launch the book was publicly condemned and criticized by the Portuguese government of the time, Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, leading the writer to leave the country to go to the island of Lanzarote in Spain, from where he did not return.

The book satirizes the life and death of Jesus Christ by rejecting the treatment of characters according to dogma and myth, portraying them as normal people, with conflicts and emotions of a genuine human being.