Regina Maria Póvoa Pessoa Martins (born 16 December 1969) is a

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Biography

Regina Pessoa was born in

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, but lived in a village near the city until she was seventeen. Without a TV, she spent her time reading, listening to the older ones telling stories and also painting her grandmother's house doors and walls using

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, encouraged by her uncle. She graduated in

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from University of Porto in 1998 and during her time as a student took part in different

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workshops, having participated in Espace Projets (

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, 1995) with the short ''A Noite'', which she would finish in 1999. In 1992 she started working in Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, where she collaborated as animator in various films. Her short ''

Tragic Story with Happy Ending ''Tragic Story with Happy Ending'' (French: ''Histoire tragique avec fin heureuse'') is a 2005 animated short by Regina Pessoa. To make the 7 minute 43 second film, Pessoa's drawings were transferred to glossy paper, brushed with India ink, scratc ...

'' is the most awarded

film ever. Her short animated film, "Kali, the Little Vampire" was awarded the Hiroshima prize at the 2012 Hiroshima international animation festival, the "1st Prize Animated Short Film – CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL 2013", "The Golden Gate Award for Best Animation Short - 56th SAN FRANCISCO INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2013", "40TH Annie Awards Nomination in the Best Animated Short Subject Category 2013", Nomination for the Cartoon d’Or 2013.

Filmography

* ''Ciclo Vicioso'', 23sec., Betacam (campaign against smoking for GlaxoWellcome) - co-directed with Abi Feijó and Pedro Serrazina (1996) * ''Estrelas de Natal'', 40sec., Betacam (for RTP) - co-directed with Abi Feijó (1998) * ''A Noite'', 6min 35sec., 35mm (1999) * ''Odisseia nas Imagens'', 25sec., 35mm (Festival Intro) (2001) * ''

'', 7min 46sec. (2005) * '' Kali the Little Vampire'', 9min 30sec. (2012) * '' Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days'' (2019)

References

External links

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Ciclope Filmes

Watch films by Regina Pessoa
at the

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