Born in Lisbon in 1945, Eduardo Geada graduated in Literature at the Lisbon faculty. He managed a film club, was film critic, and first directed a long feature in 1973, according to his point of view : "Cinema is a follow up of political action through other means". He had a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation of the Cinema Departement of the Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London. He published in 1977 "Imperialism and Fascism in Cinema" and in 1978 "Cinema and metamorphosis".