Bruno Isaac Grade Caetano was born in Portugal, in 1979. Self-taught animator and builder, he later graduated from the Center for Multimedia Studies and Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon (CIEAM) with a specialisation in Stop Motion. Despite having a strong preference for this technique, his professional career led him to participate in several projects in the most varied of animation techniques as well as other areas of artistic interest. He has worked as an animator, producer and director at several production companies. Bruno Caetano is a founding member of COLA Animation, an ever growing international cooperative of united artists, focused on producing, teaching and promoting animation worldwide.
When it comes to his work as a director, Bruno Caetano has released in 2019 “The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mr Jay” a stop motion animation short and his debut animation short film, and is now realising “Sequential”, using both stop motion and traditional animation to tell this story. Throughout his career Bruno Caetano has also directed various other projects like: music videos, commercials and institutional films.