About

I’m Miguel Ferreira. I’m 30, and I live in Porto, Portugal.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to connecting the places I saw in films and games with real places — the idea that a road, a valley, or a cemetery on screen might actually exist somewhere you could stand.

I had an isolated childhood and grew up in a home with little money. Movies and games were how I escaped somewhere that wasn’t mine. Some scenes felt less like stories and more like doors you could almost walk through: the long empty road in Forrest Gump. The bus at the end of the Alaska track in Into the Wild. A cemetery at the finish of a western. A desert that couldn’t possibly be a set. When I learned those places were real — that you could find them, visit them, stand in the frame — it gave me hope, and a different way of seeing the world.

At the end of May 2026, I finally stood in one of them. It was a childhood dream to visit the place where one of my favourite films, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, comes to an end. I rode 1,114 km in less than 24 hours, by motorbike, from Porto to Sad Hill Valley, near Contreras in Spain. Standing there felt surreal. Deeply moving. I won’t forget it.

That trip pushed me to build Framepin. I started in July 2026 — a map where those spots stay pinned, where you can line up your photo with the still, and see how other people matched the frame when they got there.

What I wanted most was a community around that: people sharing what it felt like to stand in the scene, swapping tips, helping each other find places they didn’t know existed. Framepin is still early — some pins will be off, and I’m building it from what visitors actually need — but it’s free, and always will be.