Ana Rocha Fernandes is a Cape-Verdian film director, screenwriter and editor. Fernandes was born in

Santiago, Cape Verde Santiago (Portuguese for “ Saint James”) is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation's population. Part of the Sotavento Islands, it lies between the islands of Maio ( to the east) ...

. She was a teacher in Cape Verde, and then moved to Germany to study architecture at the

University of Siegen The University of Siegen (german: Universität Siegen) is a public research university located in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities. The Univers ...

, before studying film at the

Film Academy Baden-Württemberg The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: ''Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg'') was founded in 1991 as a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Filmakademie is one of the most internationally renowned film sc ...

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...

. She now lives in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

Selected filmography

*'' Das Rauschen des Meeres'' (''The Sound of the Sea''), 2010 short drama *', 2013 *'' Rabelados - Die gewaltlosen Rebellen der kapverdischen Inseln'' (''Rabelados - The Non-Violent Rebels of the Cape Verde Islands''), 2000 documentary about the Rabelados

Awards

*''Das Rauschen des Meeres '' :*Best Short Film, 2010 :*Jury Prize, Cape Verde Film Festival 2011 *''Rabelados – die gewaltlosen Rebellen der Kapverdischen Inseln'' :*Honorable mention at the

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

:*Best Film / Press Prize, (FICA), Brazil

References

External links

* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Women film directors People from Santiago, Cape Verde Cape Verdean film directors {{CapeVerde-bio-stub