From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pedro Costa (born 1959) is a Portuguese film director. He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by the socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way that makes them resemble documentaries. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pedro Costa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​