'The Lady of Chandor', by Catarina Mourão
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Date
- / Cancelled / Sold out
Location
Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationIn Portuguese, with English subtitles.
The last film of the cycle is the documentary The Lady of Chandor (1999), filmed in Goa by Catarina Mourão, three decades after Goa’s independence from the Portuguese colonial rule. The film follows Aida de Menezes Bragança, an octogenarian woman who inherited a manor house ‘lost’ in a small village in Goa, and her effort to preserve the house, her memories and identity. Through Aida and her house, Catarina Mourão offers us a portrayal of Goa and its cultural diversity.
Biographies
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Catarina Mourão
Catarina Mourão studied Music, Law and Film in Bristol and Edinburgh (FCT grant). Founder of AporDOC, she teaches Film and Documentary since 1998. Sith Catarina Alves Costa she started Laranja Azul in 2000, an independent production company, through which she has directed many internationally recognised films. Her main areas of research are creative documentary; realism; memory, dream and archives.
Credits
Title
The Lady of Chandor
Duration
93 minutes
Director
Catarina Mourão
Screenplay
Catarina Mourão
Photography
João Ribeiro
Sound
Armanda Carvalho
Edition
Pedro Mateus Duarte, Catarina Mourão
Producer
Pedro Correia Martins
Executive producer
Julie Taylor
Financial support
IPACA (Instituto Português das Artes do Cinema e Audiovisual), CNCDP (Comissão Nacional para a Comemoração dos Descobrimentos Portugueses) and Fundação Oriente