My film UMA RAPARIGA IMATERIAL won two prizes at QueerLisboa 26 International Film Festival – Best film and the Audience Award in the short film competition. All the winners here.
Festivals
Teaching Lies.
Me and Crista Alfaiate in the workshop É Tudo Mentira!, discussing the film Girl Chewing Gum (1976) by John Smith, talking about fiction and documentary and shooting a few lies at the documentary film festival DocLisboa.
It’s All Lies!
Macau is my City
António Gouveia and Alexandra Cook are going to be in Macau at the festival This is My City to talk about the documentary series No Trilho dos Naturalistas. My episode of the series, shot in Angola, is going to be screened at the talk. December 6th, at Casa Garden, 6pm.
Sci DocLisboa
My film No Trilho dos Naturalistas: Angola is going to be screened at DocLisboa in the presentation of their new festival Sci Doc.
Jury duty is over.
I was part of the jury for the short film competition in Queer Lisboa 18, together with journalist Ben Walters, and producer Joana Ferreira. This is our statements:
Best Short Film Mondial 2010 by Roy Dib
“The jury’s decision to recognise Mondial 2010 was an easy one. Roy Dib’s film seems simple, even offhand, but exhibits a rich cineastic sensibility that powerfully explores different notions of assimilation, intimacy and openness. It warmly expresses its main subjects’ characters though they are never seen. It hints at layers of necessary concealment and repression while recording a loving relationship. It conveys a disquieting sense of place that is at once locally specific and geopolitically resonant. And it makes you wonder: can a city be queer?”
Best Portuguese Short Film Frei Luís de Sousa by SillySeason
“A period text, a collective memory, the freedom to love against established conventions. Passion, flesh, body, the wait, anguish, repetition. The wait, anguish, repetition. A game in which the audience always returns to the starting point. About theater and cinema, without ever ceasing to be both. A game of wordplay. About identity. Who are you?”