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João Mário Grilo
João Mário Lourenço Bagão Grilo (born 8 November 1958) is a Portugal, Portuguese film director, author and professor, born in Figueira da Foz. He attended economics at the University of Coimbra but dropped out. In 1983, he graduated in sociology at Lisbon's ISCTE and in 1994 earned a Ph.D. in communication sciences from the NOVA University Lisbon. He is a full professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the NOVA University Lisbon, where, among other courses, he teaches Filmology and Film Direction. His first long feature film won the Georges Sadoul Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Filmography *''Maria'', 1978-9 (Maria) *''A Estrangeira'', 1982 (The Foreigner) *''O Processo do Rei'', 1989 (The King's Trial) *''The End of the World (1992 film), O Fim do Mundo'', 1992 (The End of the World) *''Saramago: Documentos'', 1994 (Saramago: Documents) *''Os Olhos da Ásia'', 1996 (The Eyes of Asia) *''Longe da Vista'', 1998 (Out of Sight) *''451 Forte'', 2000 (451 Forte) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figueira Da Foz
Figueira da Foz (), also known as Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, west of Coimbra and sheltered by hills (Serra da Boa Viagem), sharing about the same latitude with Philadelphia, Baku and Beijing. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 62,125, in an area of . The city of Figueira da Foz proper has a population of 46,600. It is the second largest city in the district of Coimbra. It is a coastal city with several beaches, summer and seaport facilities on the Atlantic Ocean coast. As a tourism city, it plays an important part in the centre of the country. A zone of legal gambling, one can find in Figueira one of the biggest casinos of the Iberian Peninsula – the Casino Figueira. History According to the legend, the place's name is due to a fig tree, which stood at the quay of Salmanha, where the fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NOVA University Lisbon
NOVA University Lisbon ( pt, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, ), or just NOVA, is a Portuguese public university whose rectorate is located in Campolide, Lisbon. Founded in 1973, it is the newest of the public universities in the Portuguese capital city, earning its name as the "New" (NOVA) University of Lisbon. The institution has more than 20,000 students, 1,800 professors and staff members distributed through five faculties, three institutes and one school, providing a variety of courses in several fields of knowledge. History NOVA University Lisbon was founded in 1973 and is the newest public university in the Lisbon metropolitan area, with teaching units in Lisbon, Almada, Oeiras, and Cascais. It was founded as a response to ever-increasing demand for higher education in Portugal and in Lisbon in particular. While its early years focused on graduate and specialist programs, NOVA started expanding its teaching and research from 1977 onwards. The structure of NOVA was organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Figueira Da Foz
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1958 Births
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Portuguese Film Directors
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Duas Mulheres
''Duas Mulheres'' is a 2009 Portuguese drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ... directed by João Mário Grilo. Cast * Beatriz Batarda as Joana * Débora Monteiro * Virgílio Castelo Reception Beatriz Batarda was nominated for Best Actress at the 2011 Globos de Ouro. In Público's Ípsilon, Jorge Mourinha gave the film two out of five stars and Mário Jorge Torres gave it three out of five. References External links * 2009 drama films 2009 films Films directed by João Mário Grilo Lesbian-related films Portuguese drama films Portuguese LGBT-related films LGBT-related drama films {{Portugal-film-stub 2009 LGBT-related films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Os Olhos Da Ásia
''Os Olhos da Ásia'' (Portuguese: The Eyes of Asia) is a 1996 Portuguese historical drama film directed by João Mário Grilo, who also co-wrote the script with Paulo Filipe. It is partially based on the novel ''Silence'' by Shūsaku Endō. The film premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival on 15 August 1996 where it was also nominated for the Golden Leopard. The film was released in Portugal on 11 April 1997. Plot Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forced again to prove his faith, only this time before a ''shōgun'', who wanted to force him to abandon his religion. Julian resists, as does Miguel Chijiwa, a fellow at the embassy to Rome, who become a martyr. Betrayed by Cristóvão Ferreira, who cannot bear the torture, Julian suffers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of The World (1992 Film)
''The End of the World'' ( pt, O Fim do Mundo) is a 1992 Portuguese drama film directed by João Mário Grilo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * José Viana - Augusto Henriques * Adelaide João - Conceição das Neves * Zita Duarte - Violante * Santos Manuel - Guard 1 * Heitor Lourenço - Guard 2 * João Lagarto - João * Carlos Daniel - Carlos * Alexandra Lencastre - Maria do Carmo * Henrique Viana Henrique Viana ( Lisbon, June 29, 1936 — Lisbon, July 4, 2007) was a Portuguese actor who worked in theatre, cinema and television. He died of cancer in Capuchos Hospital, aged 71. Filmography *''Aqui Há Fantasmas'' (1964) by Pedro Martins ... - Laureano * Mário Jacques - Prosecutor * Rui Mendes - Judge * Maria João Luís - Alda References External links * 1992 films 1990s Portuguese-language films 1992 drama films Films directed by João Mário Grilo Films produced by Paulo Branco Portuguese dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communication Sciences
Communication studies or communication science is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different cultures. Communication is commonly defined as giving, receiving or exchanging ideas, information, signals or messages through appropriate media, enabling individuals or groups to persuade, to seek information, to give information or to express emotions effectively. Communication studies is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge that encompasses a range of topics, from face-to-face conversation at a level of individual agency and interaction to social and cultural communication systems at a macro level. Scholarly communication theorists focus primarily on refining the theoretical understanding of communication, examining statistics in order to help su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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