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António Campos (politician)
António Campos (29 May 1922 – 8 March 1999) was one of the pioneer filmmakers of visual anthropology in Portugal. Mainly using pure documentary techniques, he shot ethnographic films and tried docufiction. As well as in fictional films, he used the methods of direct cinema to portrait the life of ancient human communities (ethnofiction) of his country. He started making films at the beginning of the sixties, at the same time as John Marshall (EU) and Michel Brault (Canada). Without knowing much about Jean Rouch, he followed his steps in an original way. Biography He integrated a troupe of theatre amateurs and worked at a state department office in Leiria. He got a subvention from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1961, where he worked between 1970 and 1976, to study cinema in London. He took part in the 20th Century Film Festival, in Kracow, Poland. He was the delegate in Portugal for the International Federation of Art Film and a member of the International Union of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leiria
Leiria () is a city and municipality in the Central Region, Portugal, Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, after Coimbra, with a municipality population of 128,640 (as of 2021) in an area of . It is the seat of Leiria District, its own district and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria-Fátima. The city is part of the historical Provinces of Portugal, province of Beira Litoral Province, Beira Litoral. History The region around Leiria has long been inhabited although its early history is obscure. The first evident inhabitants were the Turduli Oppidani, a Celtici tribe (akin to the Lusitanians), who established a settlement near (around 7 km) present-day Leiria. This settlement was later occupied by the Ancient Rome, Romans, who expanded it under the original Celtiberian language, Celtiberian name ''Collippo''. The stones of the ancient Roman town were used in the Middle Ages to build much of Leiria. The name "Leiria" in Portuguese derives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mini Dv
DV (from ''Digital Video'') is a family of codecs and tape formats used for storing digital video, launched in 1995 by a consortium of video camera manufacturers led by Sony and Panasonic. It includes the recording or cassette formats DV, MiniDV, HDV, DVCAM, DVCPro, DVCPro50, DVCProHD, Digital8, and Digital-S. DV has been used primarily for video recording with camcorders in the amateur and professional sectors. DV was designed to be a standard for home video using digital data instead of analog. Compared to the analog Video8/Hi8, VHS-C and VHS formats, DV features a higher video resolution (on par with professional-grade Digital Betacam); it records uncompressed 16-bit PCM audio like CD. The most popular tape format using a DV codec was MiniDV; these cassettes measured just 6.35 mm/¼ inch, making it ideal for video cameras and rendering older analog formats obsolete. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, DV was strongly associated with the transition from analog to digital desk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Portugal
The Cinema of Portugal started with the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. Cinema was introduced in Portugal in 1896 with the screening of foreign films and the first Portuguese film was '' Saída do Pessoal Operário da Fábrica Confiança'', made in the same year. The first movie theater opened in 1904 and the first scripted Portuguese film was '' O Rapto de Uma Actriz'' (1907). The first all-talking sound film, '' A Severa'', was made in 1931. Starting in 1933, with '' A Canção de Lisboa'', the Golden Age would last the next two decades, with films such as '' O Pátio das Cantigas'' (1942) and '' A Menina da Rádio'' (1944). '' Aniki-Bóbó'' (1942), Manoel de Oliveira's first feature film, marked a milestone, with a realist style predating Italian neorealism by a few years. In the 1950s the industry stagnated. The early 1960s saw the birth of the ''Cinema Novo'' (literally "New Cinema") movement, showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian neorealism and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Cinematheque
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine animal ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José De Matos-Cruz
José de Matos-Cruz (born 9 February 1947) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. From 1980 to 2010, he worked at the '' Cinemateca Portuguesa'' (Portuguese Film Archive) in Lisbon. He is a prominent historian of the Portuguese cinema. Biography José de Matos-Cruz in an article about Ricardo Costa is a licentiate in law by the , 1973. Since the 1960s, he has written for various newspapers and magazines. He writes fiction and poetry books, some worth mentioning: ''Tempo Possível'' (''Possible Times''), in 1967, ''Cafr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Flaherty
Robert Joseph Flaherty, (; February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, '' Nanook of the North'' (1922). The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of narrative documentary with '' Moana'' (1926), set in the South Seas, and ''Man of Aran'' (1934), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands. Flaherty is considered the father of both the documentary and the ethnographic film. Flaherty was married to writer Frances H. Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951. Frances worked on several of her husband's films, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for '' Louisiana Story'' (1948). Early life Flaherty was one of seven children born to prospector Robert Henry Flaherty (an Irish Protestant) and Susan Klockner (a German Catholic). Due to exposure from his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Leitão De Barros
José Júlio Marques Leitão de Barros (22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967) was a Portuguese film director and playwright. Career Among his most famous films are '' Maria do Mar'' (1930), the second docufiction after '' Moana'' (1926) by Robert Flaherty, the first Portuguese sound film, '' A Severa'' (1931), '' Ala-Arriba!'' (1945), and a biopic about Portugal's national poet, '' Camões'' (1946). He was born and died in Lisbon. Filmography * ''Mal de Espanha'' (1918) * '' O Homem dos Olhos Tortos'' (1918) (unfinished) * ''Malmequer'' (1918) * ''Sidónio Pais - Proclamação do Presidente da República'' (1918) (lost) * ''Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores'' (1929) (the second part is lost) * ''Festas da Curia'' (1927) * ''Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica'' (1930) * '' Maria do Mar'' (1930) * '' A Severa'' (1931) * '' As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor'' (1935) * ''Bocage'' (1936) * ''Las Tres Gracias'' (1936) * '' Maria Papoila'' (1937) * ''Legião Portuguesa'' (1937) * ''Mocidade Portuguesa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ala-Arriba! (film)
''Ala-Arriba!'' is a 1942 in film, 1942 Portugal, Portuguese romantic film, romantic docufiction set in Póvoa de Varzim, a traditional Portugal, Portuguese fishing town. Dealing with ethnographic matters, it may be considered as an ethnofiction. The film was directed by José Leitão de Barros, Leitão de Barros, and stars real fishermen as themselves in order to give a realistic view over traditions and social behaviours of the community. Focusing the cultural context, it continuously shifts from Documentary film, documentary to drama, by means of a fictional narrative. Contemporary to Robert Flaherty, Barros is with him one of the first filmmakers to explore docufiction and ethnofiction as forms of dramatic narrative. It première, premiered at São Luis Theatre in Lisbon. Synopsis It focuses on maritime tragedy of the town and a forbidden love between Julha (Elsa Bela-Flor) and João Moço (Domingos Gonçalves), from different Póvoa de Varzim#Culture, fisher castes, in a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manoel De Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. In 1931, he completed his first film ''Douro, Faina Fluvial'', a documentary about his home city Porto made in the Documentary film#City-symphony, city-symphony genre. He made his feature film debut in 1942 with ''Aniki-Bóbó'' and continued to make shorts and documentaries for the next 30 years, gaining a minimal amount of recognition without being considered a major world film director. In 1971, Oliveira directed his second feature narrative film, ''Past and Present (1972 film), Past and Present'', a social satire that both set the standard for his film career afterwards and gained him recognition in the global film community. He continued making films of growing ambition throughout the 1970s and 1980s, gaining critical accl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarida Cordeiro
Margarida Cordeiro (born 1939) is a Portuguese psychiatrist and film director from Mogadouro. The art concepts developed by her and film director António Reis are called The School of Reis. Filmography As writer * ''Jaime '' As director * '' Ana'' * ''Trás-os-Montes Trás-os-Montes () is a geographical, historical and cultural region of Portugal. Portuguese language, Portuguese for "behind the mountains", Trás-os-Montes is located northeast of the country in an highland, upland area, landlocked by the Douro ...'' * ''Rosa de Areia'' References External links * Portuguese film directors Portuguese women film directors Living people 1939 births People from Mogadouro {{Portugal-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trás-os-Montes (film)
''Trás-os-Montes'' is a Portuguese independent docufictional and ethnofictional feature film, written, directed and edited by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro and released in 1976. It takes its name from the Portuguese region of Trás-os-Montes from which the film emanated. Release and reception Upon watching ''Trás-os-Montes'' the French filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch wrote about the film: ''For me, this film reveals a new cinematographic language.'' Since its release, the film has been part of the official selection of numerous film festivals and events, from 1976 to nowadays, where it has been awarded several prizes. Among them are: * 1976 – Toulon Film Festival – Special Prize of the Jury, Critics Award * 1976 – Pesaro Film Festival – Critics Award * 1976 – Bedford Film Festival * 1976 – XI Challenge de Cartago * 1977 – Mannheim Film Festival – Main Award of Mannheim * 1977 – Rotterdam Film Festival * 1977 – Anvers Film Festival * 1977 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
