Raquel Freire (born 22 June 1973, in
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
) is a Portuguese
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
,
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and
novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...
.
In 2014 she released the film ''Transiberic Love'' which is a love story set in modern times showing how one can be an activist within globalised social media and still have some integrity.
Works
Films
*''Rio Vermelho''
*''
Rasganço
''Rasganço'' is a 2001 Portuguese drama film directed by Raquel Freire. It was released on 30 November.
Cast
*Ana Teresa Carvalhosa
*Isabel Ruth
*Paula Marques
*Ricardo Aibéo
* Paulo Rocha
*Luís Miguel Cintra
*Ivo Ferreira
*Ana Brandão
*Ana ...
'' (2001)
*''Veneno Cura'' (2008)
[
]
Novel
*''Trans Iberic Love'' (2013)[
]
References
External links
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21st-century Portuguese women writers
1973 births
Living people
People from Porto
Portuguese women film directors
Portuguese women novelists
Women screenwriters
21st-century screenwriters
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