Sérgio Manuel Napoleão Ferreira (1946– 2006) was a Portuguese–Cape Verdean writer and filmmaker.

Biography

He was the son of the Portuguese writer Manuel Ferreira and Cape Verdean writer

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. He moved to Pangim in

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in what was Portuguese India during his childhood and later in Africa. He did not want to participate in the colonial wars in Africa, he lived in exile in London for six years, where he worked in film at the

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for cinema and television, he also studied at the Contemporary Film Makers Studio. He also studied in cinematography in Lisbon at Escola Superior de Teatro and Cinema (Theatre and Film High School); he commonly studied with other actors in Lisbon at the National Conservatory. He later became a film producer, took part in filming some films on personalities of Portuguese culture, the feature films for RTP, mainly on the life on Fernando Namora, Leal da Câmara, Pomar, Armando Jorge, Jorge Peixinho, António Casimiro and

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. He equally made six program series on the evolution of

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. He made and directed seminaries on film at the Theater and Cinema High School in Lisbon. He was executive producer of ALAC publications (Africa, Literature, Arts and Culture) and the review ''África – Literatura, Arte e Cultura'' (Africa: Literature, Arts and Culture) which was done together with his father. He made his fictional historical novel in 2005 titled ''A Donatária'' which produced a careful investigation from different years. The action of the novel took place between 1578 and 1583 and is mainly set on the island of Santiago. Sérgio Ferreira, following the footsteps of his parents, Manuel Ferreira and Orlanda Amarílis, with the novel being previously contributed into a Cape Verdean fictional novel, honoring the letters of two countries between Portugal and Cape Verde. He later published ''O Desígnio'' in 2005O Desígnio
and a year later ''O sorriso ao canto da borca'' shortly before his death.

Works

* ''A Donatária'' - Lisboa : Plátano Editora, 2005. - 292 pages * ''O desígnio : Um conto de Natal'' - Lisboa : Plátano Editora, 2005. - 32 pages * ''Um sorriso ao canto da boca'' - Lisboa : Plátano Editora, 2006. - 42 pages

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferreira, Sérgio 1946 births 2006 deaths Portuguese male writers Cape Verdean male writers People from Mindelo Portuguese people of Cape Verdean descent Cape Verdean expatriates in Portugal