Jorge Cramez was born in Angola in 1963. He has a degree in journalism from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1983/85). He then worked at the Portuguese Cinematheque and attended the Editing course at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema.He wrote for the cinema section of Jornal de Letras.
Since 1997, he works as script supervisor and Assistant Director, has worked with, among others, Joao Cesar Monteiro, Joao Mario Grilo, José Álvaro Morais, Werner Schroeter, Joaquim Leitão, Luis Filipe Rocha. Directs six short films and in 2006, his first feature film with “The Golden Helmet”, present in the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival in 2007.