Screening of short films
Advance Training Course in Film and Television Directing
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Date
- 16:00 / Cancelled 16:00 / Sold out Saturday, 16:00
- 16:00 / Cancelled 16:00 / Sold out Sunday, 16:00
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianAimed at eight professionals or emerging directors, the course offered a programme of artistic creation which culminated in the making of eight short films that have been circulating at the main film festivals.
For several weeks, the selected directors had the opportunity to make contact with internationally recognised directors and artists (Céline Sciamma, Lucrecia Martel, Atom Egoyan, João Rui Guerra da Mata e Mariana Gaivão), as well as technicians and creatives with relevant work in the fields of cinema and television (Pedro Lopes, Nuno Artur Silva, Luís Urbano e Rui Poças, Graça Castanheira e Teresa Paixão). The films were mentored by Marco Martins and João Canijo.
These working sessions resulted in eight short films, which are now being presented at the CAM Studio.
Biographies
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Ágata Pinho
With a BA in Theatre, Ágata de Pinho has been working as a performer for 20 years. In 2022, AZUL, the first film she wrote, directed and produced and in which she plays the lead role, premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was subsequently shown at various festivals and won several awards. Ágata is currently working on her first feature, Femmes de Ménage, a Portuguese-Luxembourg co-production, produced by Uma Pedra no Sapato (PT) and Paul Thiltges Distributions (LU). At the same time, she is working on a new short film, entitled Tusa, produced by Foi Bonita a Festa.
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Ana Vilela da Costa
Actor and artist, MA in Theatre, DAS Theatre (Amsterdam), MA in Performative Arts, ESTC – IPL. BA in Cultural Anthropology, ISCSP – UL. Gulbenkian and GDA grantee, Sophia Prize winner for best supporting actress 2020, GDA Prize Novos Talentos Cinema 2020, António Mendes Corrêa Prize 2008. Her multidisciplinary practice intertwines performative arts and video installation dealing with themes such as Feminist Sci-Fi, post-human and fictional speculation with an interest in the boundaries and thresholds where reality and fiction meet.
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Clara Jost
She studied film editing and directing at ESTC (Lisbon), and holds a MA in Audiovisual Arts from KASK (Belgium), which she attended as a Gulbenkian Foundation grantee. Author of several short films, she also works as an editor. Her film Meine Liebe won the IndieLisboa’s National Short Film Competition 2020 and circulated in several countries. She is the author of the thesis Au hasard, cinema: thoughts on the location of cinema in space and time, which reflects on the points of (dis)encounter between video art and cinema. In 2024, she directed her first installation, Altar da Laranjeira, in the Algarve region.
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Diego Bragà
Luso-Brazilian non-binary transfeminine filmmaker, composer and writer. She started her professional career in theatre. In 2021 she received the fellowship for young creators from the Sundance Film Festival and her film Think About The Beautiful Future Ahead is currently in the Op-Docs of The New York Times. MA in Theories of Art, FBAUL. She launched two EPs and visual albums and staged five plays. She got several awards, including the Culture award from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture as one of the young artists representatives of Brazilian contemporary art.
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Luísa Mello
Film director, MA in Documentary Directing from the international DocNomads Join Master Degree Programme (Portugal, Hungary and Belgium). She has a BA in Cinema, a PGCert in Art and Philosophy from the PUC-Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); and studied Documentary Filmmaking at the International Film School of Cuba. Her work has been screened and awarded at several festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Bogoshorts, Vienna Shorts, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Ji.Hlava, and exhibited in Brazilian Television, Netflix and MUBI.
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Mário Veloso
During his training at the Lisbon Theater and Film School, Mário Veloso directed his first short films – Rio Torto (2019) and Fora da Bouça (2021) – both screened and awarded at the Verdes Anos section of Doclisboa. In his early years of career, he has worked extensively as an assistant director on national and internadonal productions; notable is his collaboration on the film The KegelstaR Trio directed by Rita Azevedo Gomes. He has just completed his first fiction short film Summer Rains.
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Marta Sousa Ribeiro
She did the first year of the film course at the ESTC (Lisbon), she studied Drawing and Painting at Ar.Co and attended the European Film College (Denmark). She was one of the co-founders of the film and video production company Videolotion. She directed episodes for television series, produced several shorts, feature films, video-instalattions, tv series. She premiered her debut feature Simon Chama in 2020, which received several awards – Eurimages Lab Project, Best Director for a Portuguese Feature Film (IndieLisboa) and the Open Call for Portuguese Women Filmmakers.
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Nuno Pimentel
He studied cinema at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto and screenwriting at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a filmmaker but also works in the distribution of independent cinema. In 2019 he was part of the Locarno Film Festival’s Industry Academy. In 2022 he took part in the advanced training in directing, promoted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Catholic University of Porto, where he developed the short film Maria Henriqueta was here. His first short film, I’m Feeling Something is currently in post-production. He lives in Berlin.
Programme
Maria Henriqueta Esteve Aqui, by Nuno Pimentel
Felicidade numa Panela, by Clara Jost
Cleópatra & António, by Diego Bragà
Crua+Porosa, by Ágata Pinho
The Illusion Of An Everlasting Kiss, by Marta Sousa Ribeiro
Chuvas de Verão, by Mário Veloso
Gardunha, by Ana Vilela Costa
Pedra Seca, by Luísa Mello
Credits
Image
Still from the film António & Cleópatra, by Diego Bragà
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