Sol de Carvalho (João Luís Sol de Carvalho, born 1953) is a Mozambican film director and producer.
Biography
He grew up in
Inhambane
Inhambane, also known as Terra de Boa Gente (''Land of Good People''), is a city located in southern Mozambique, lying on Inhambane Bay, 470 km northeast of Maputo. It is the capital of the Inhambane Province and according to the 2017 census ...
and later attended in Lisbon the Escola de Cinema do Conservatório, forerunner of the
Lisbon Theatre and Film School. When Mozambique became independent in 1975, he worked as director of the Serviço Nacional da Rádio Moçambique (). From 1979 he was a journalist for the Mozambican magazine
''Tempo'' with journalist, poet and writer
Mia Couto and Albino Magaia. In 1986 he decided to dedicate himself entirely to audiovisual media (cinema and television) as a director and producer.
[ First published in the magazine África21, January 2011 issue.] Sol de Carvalho was one of the founders of the Mozambican production company Ébano, together with Pedro Pimenta and
Licínio Azevedo
Licínio Silveira Azevedo (Licínio de Azevedo, Licínio Azevedo, Novo Hamburgo, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1951) is a Brazilian–Mozambican journalist, film producer, screenwriter, and film director of award-winning documentaries and feature films. ...
), which he later left to start his own new company Promarte.
Filmography
De Carvalho's films include:
References
See also
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Cinema of Mozambique
External links
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Videos
* . Video duration 1m 10s. Uploader Jorge Leitão Ramos 2023.
* . Video duration 1m 5s. Uploader Jorge Leitão Ramos 2024.
* . Video duration trailer 1m 40s. Uploader Cine Clube de Viseu 2020.
* Trailer 2m 20s.
* . Video duration 12m 2s. Uploader Cine Clube de Viseu 2021. Interview of Sol de Carvalho by filmmaker Rui Simões in Portuguese.
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1953 births
Mozambican film directors
People from Beira, Mozambique
Living people