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Curtas Vila Do Conde
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, created in 1993, is one of the most important cinematographic and cultural events in Portugal dedicated to short-films and annually produced in July, in the city Vila do Conde. The edition of 2011 had more than 20 000 spectators. In 2012 the festival celebrates the 20th Edition. History Programmes Juries Awards *Main awards from 2011 **Great Prize Cidade Vila do Conde - BORO IN THE BOX, Bertrand Mandico, France **Best Fiction - PETIT TAILLEUR, Louis Garrel, France **Best Documentary - GET OUT OF THE CAR, Thom Andersen, United States **Best Animation - WAKARANAI BUTA, Atsushi Wada, Japan **Best Experimental - THE PUSHCARTS LEAVE ETERNITY STREET, Ken Jacobs, United States **Best Music Video - RELEASE THE FREQ – MATTA, Kim Holm, Norway **Best Portuguese Short film - O NOSSO HOMEM, Pedro Costa, Portugal **Take One! Prize - ARTUR Artur is a cognate to the common male given name Arthur, meaning "bear-like," which is b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vila Do Conde
Vila do Conde (, ; "the Count's Town") is a municipality in the Norte Region of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 79,533, in an area of 149.03 km². The urbanized area of Vila do Conde, which includes the parishes of Vila do Conde, Azurara and Árvore, represent 36,137 inhabitants. Vila do Conde is interlinked to the north with Póvoa de Varzim, forming a single urban agglomeration which is a part of the Porto Metropolitan Area. The town is on the Portuguese Way of the Camino de Santiago. History Vila do Conde is one of the oldest settlements in northern Portugal. Geological artifacts dating to the Paleolithic have been discovered in sites in the parishes of Modivas, Malta, and Labruge dating from 100,000 to 15,000 years. In other parishes there have also been discoveries of implements and mounds dating back to the Bronze Age and Neolithic periods indicating a period of transition between forging and sedimentary civilizations. Its origins date back to the founding of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
