Born in 1973, Gonçalo Galvão Teles graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon before travelling to the United States, where he completed a Master's degree in Screenwriting for Film and Television at the University of Southern California.
Upon returning to Portugal, his first produced script, the animated short film A Suspeita, won the Cartoon d’Or for best European animated film of the year 2000. Since then, he has developed a career as a screenwriter, director and producer of several films, including the TV movies Teorema de Pitágoras (screenwriter and director), A Noiva (co-director), and Jogo da Glória (screenwriter), the feature films O Jardim do Outro Homem and O Último Voo do Flamingo (screenwriter), and the short films O Outro Lado do Arco-Íris, Senhor X and Antes de Amanhã (Winner of Best Short Film at Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival, Grand Prize at Ovarvídeo and Grand Prize at the Mediterranean Short Film Festival), all as screenwriter and director.

After the release of the feature films Gelo (2016) and Soldado Milhões (2018) – winner of 5 Sophia Awards from the Portuguese Film Academy – he recently premiered his new film Nunca Nada Aconteceu, with Filipe Duarte, Ana Moreira, Rui Morrison, Bernardo Lobo Faria, Miguel Amorim, Alba Baptista and Beatriz Batarda, winner of Best Actor and Best Actress at the Punta Del Este Film Festival (Uruguay) and nominated for 11 Sophia Awards, including Best Film and Best Director.
In parallel, he has developed a career as a teacher, having delivered workshops for several institutions and, since its foundation in 2007, has been responsible for the screenwriting courses of the Master’s in Film Studies at Universidade Lusófona. Since 2011, he has also been teaching in the undergraduate Film degree at the same university, where he supervises the screenplays of final-year short films. More recently, he has taken on the coordination of the university's international projects, being responsible for the Essemble and Looking China programs, and serving as Director of Kino Eyes Movie Masters, the International Master’s in Fiction Filmmaking.