An encounter to discuss formats, possibilities and contingencies in co-productions between Portuguese-speaking African countries and Portugal, their obvious European partner. For this talk, we invited a generation that reflects upon and produces films in a hyper digital and networked new world. Could there be new answers to old questions?
The session will be held in Portuguese, with no translation.
Free admission.
She is interested in the fictional aspects of film montage, the porous boundaries between moving image and reception, and the economies, poetics and politics inherent to cinema’s praxis. César’s research on the imaginaries of the Guinea-Bissau liberation movement as a laboratory for decolonizing epistemologies begun in 2011 and has been developed into many collective projects such as Luta ca caba inda and Mediateca Onshore.
(Portugal)
Director, producer and cinematographer. Member of the Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences since 2020. Founder of 16mm Filmes, a Mozambican production company focusing on creative documentaries and feature-length films. Addresses issues such as post-colonial memory, post-Civil War trauma, and collective amnesia in Mozambique. His country’s unofficial history is almost always the conduit for his films, in which he takes a personal perspective.
(Mozambique)
One of the most versatile filmmakers in Angola, signing several works as editor, assistant director and producer of films, video clips, institutional films and advertisements. In 2019, she directed her first film, the documentary Para lá dos Meus Passos, which won the prize for Best Documentary Film at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival in 2020 and was awarded at DOC Luanda 2022, among others, having been screened at more than ten festivals.
(Angola)
Director, producer and founder of Kulunga Filmes, a production company whose main objective is to produce films by emerging filmmakers from Portuguese-speaking African countries and countries in the southern region of Africa.
(Mozambique)
President of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual of Portugal since June 2017. Worked in the cultural sector where he held several public management positions, and also in the advertising industry and in the film post-production sector as Tobis CEO. Cultural counsellor at the Portuguese embassy in Spain between 2010 and 2013. After that, he worked in a venture capital firm and as a private consultant.
(Portugal) Portuguese Film and Audiovisual Institute
Self-taught Cape Verdean filmmaker, who started working as editor and cinematographer. Co-founded the production company Kriolscope Filmes in Cape Verde in 2015. Also worked on other projects by different Cape Verdean directors as cinematographer and editor, and in the film Vitalina Varela, by Pedro Costa. In 2019, wrote, directed and edited the film Kmêdeus. Has been working on a visual and narrative aesthetics of Cape Verdean cinema.
(Cape Verde)
Born in Guinea-Bissau in 1978, has lived in Paris, Macau, Porto and Germany. Is pursuing a doctorate in film and image studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. Works mainly based on experimental cinema, video art, performance and disciplinary crossings. Directed short films such as Tradição e Imaginação, Mikambaru, Si destinu, Fiji and MadMudPool. Participated in exhibitions at Espaço Rampa, Espaço Mira and Hangar.
(Guinea-Bissau)
