José Augusto Octávio Gamboa dos Passos, known as Zézé Gamboa (born 1955) is an Angolan film director.

Life

Zézé Gamboa was born in

Luanda Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport ...

in 1955.Ivonete Pinto
Entrevista: Zézé Gamboa
''Orson'', No. 4, 2013. He started working as a news producer in Angolan television in May 1974. In 1980 he moved to Europe, spending nine years in

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and another seven years in

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before eventually settling in

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. Gamboa started film-making by making documentaries. He also worked on '' Foreign Land'' (1995), directed by

Walter Salles Walter Moreira Salles Júnior (; born 12 April 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Early life Salles was born on 12 April 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He is the son of Brazil ...

, and '' Napomuceno's Will'',

Francisco Manso Francisco Manso (born 28 November 1949), is a Portuguese filmmaker and producer. He is best known as the director of the critically acclaimed films, ''Napomuceno's Will'', '' The Consul of Bordeaux'' and ''O Nosso Cônsul em Havana''. Career He g ...

's 1997 film adaptation of

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's novel ''

The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo ''The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo'' (Portuguese: ''O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno da Silva Araújo'', Cape Verdean Creole (Badiu): ''U Testamentu du Sinhor Napumosenu da Silva Araúju'') is a Capeverdean novel published ...

''. ''

The Hero The Hero may refer to: Books * "The Hero" (poem), a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore * ''The Hero'' (novel), a science fiction novel by John Ringo and Michael Z. Williamson * '' The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama'', a book by Fi ...

'' (2004) tells the story of a man attempting to recover his stolen prosthetic limb in an Angola trying to rebuild itself after the civil war. It received the

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for World Cinema at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, among over 25 film festival awards. Critic

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has characterized Gamboa's '' The Great Kilapy'' (2012), "a burlesque biopic about a professional swindler" in 1970s Angola, as using

farce Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity o ...

to "reveal the extent to which the contradictions of the colony already bore the seeds of

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Films

* ''Mopiopio, Sopro de Angola'', 1991. Documentary. * ''Desassossego de Pessoa''. Documentary. * ''Dessidência''. Documentary. * ''O Herói'' / ''The Hero'', 2004. Feature film. * ''O Grande Kilapy'' / ''The Great Kilapy'', 2012. Feature film.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gamboa, Zeze 1955 births Living people Angolan film directors