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DAY 7
Monday 14 May 2018

PRODUCERS TO WATCH
COMING SOON
Four production outfi ts contribute
to the diversity of the Portuguese
fi lm scene.
amounts in the support to first works and new talents, a EMPIRE HOTEL
restructuring of the support to writing and development BANDO À PARTE
of projects, and a restructuring of the support to animation From Africa to Asia: after depicting Portugal’s
cinema. In a strongly centralised country, Rodrigo African past in Letters from War, director Ivo M.
ICA is also aiming to raise the profile of Portuguese cinema Areias affi rmed himself as a professional Ferreira turns to another former colony, Macao,
by attracting international film-making and launching a successfully operating outside the capital. where he sets the plot of his new fi lm. Empire Hotel
new cash rebate incentive. “Portugal was known for the From his Guimarães-based outfi t Bando à stars Margarida Vila-Nova and Rhydian Vaughan in
great diversity of its landscape and for its professionals, but Parte, Areias manages the production of a family melodrama produced by O Som e a Fúria.
our system was not competitive,” says ICA new President several projects by both emerging and
Luís Chaby Vaz. “We want to change that and place veteran fi lm-makers. He has recently
Portugal on the map for the great film and audiovisual developed a prolifi c collaboration with UNTIL PORN DO US APART
productions.” Consequently, ICA strengthened the director Edgar Pêra, producing new
available incentives for producing or co-producing films projects including Tu Acima de Tudo, Former TV reporter Jorge Pelicano made a
in Portugal. It also broadened their scope of application Fora de Órbita and Magnetic Pathways, remarkable transition from reportage to
to the audiovisual sector and reduced the amount of which is due to be released in the documentary fi lm. After the impressive Suddenly
eligible expenditures (from €1,000,000 to a minimum of upcoming months. My Thoughts Halt, Pelicano is back with Until
€500,000, or €250,000 for documentaries and orn Do Us Apart, which focuses on the journey of
postproduction). The new Tax Rebate Incentive is entering UKBAR FILMS acceptance by a 65-year-old woman when she fi nds
into force and it will be introduced in Cannes’ Plages des out that her son, who has emigrated to Germany,
Palmes on May 14. When the collaboration between Terry has become a successful gay porn star named Foster
Simultaneously, an inter-ministerial work group named Gilliam and Paulo Branco came to an end Riviera. The fi lm is produced by Pelicano’s outfi t
PicPortugal has been created with the ultimate goal of over the production of The Man who Até ao Fim do Mundo.
establishing a Portuguese Film Commission. For the Killed Dom Quixote, Pandora da Cunha
record, Portugal has 11 regional Film Commissions, but Telles became one of new co-producers
no great communication exists between them. According attached to Gilliam´s bumpy project. SNU
to Chaby Vaz, the creation of a new film commission will But Ukbar’s line-up includes several other
“facilitate the procedures and also assemble in one single titles such as Vicente Alves do Ó’s two Snu is the next Portuguese biopic to hit the screens.
desk all the information and requests to shoot in Portugal”. upcoming fi lms: Golpe de Sol, to be Patrícia Sequeira’s second feature (after the
This is being articulated with three ministries and ICA is released soon, and the biopic of painter female-driven Game of Checkers) is, again,
“currently gathering all the contacts and enquiries”. Amadeo de Sousa-Cardoso, currently a woman’s portrait. Inês Castelo-Branco stars
in pre-production. Ukbar is also involved as Snu Abecassis, a Danish publisher whose affair
CANNES: THE PORTUGUESE in the production of Simão Cayate’s with Portuguese Prime Minister Sá Carneiro shocked
CONTINGENT feature debut Sandra. post-revolutionary Portugal. The couple died
Marketing Portugal as a privileged filming destination is in 1980 in a plane crash, the details of which
particularly relevant in a year in which the Portuguese O SOM E A FÚRIA are still controversial. Skydreams and Santa
contingent at Cannes includes two big co-productions Rita Filmes co-produce it.
which brought international talent to the territory. While Miguel Gomes’ Os Sertões is in
The Great Mystical Circus by Brazilian director Carlos pre-production, Luís Urbano has already
Diegues is part of the Official Selection. The film was several fi lms in the making, including CARGO
entirely shot in Portugal, with executive production by actor-turned-director Gonçalo
Fado Filmes. The budget was mostly Brazilian (70%), but Waddington’s feature debut Patrick and Bruno Gascon’s feature debut Cargo follows
also Portuguese (20%) and French (10%). Laís Bodansky’s Pedro. Mariphasa, a Russian woman who becomes the victim of
Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Official by his partner at O Som e a Fúria, a human-traffi cking network. Produced
Selection – Closing Film) was also partially shot in the city Sandro Aguilar, is also ready for domestic by Caracol Protagonista, a new company funded
of Tomar. It benefited from international co-production distribution, after a World Premiere by entrepreneur Tim Vieira, Cargo stars polish
which included Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes. at the latest Berlinale. actress Michalina Olszanska, Vítor Norte,
Other Portuguese productions in Cannes bring a young Rita Blanco and international model
generation of talented film-makers into the spotlight. TERRATREME Sara Sampaio, making her fi lm debut.
Among them is Gabriel Abrantes, whose anticipated
feature debut Diamantino, co-directed with Daniel Run by a strong-minded group of
Schmidt, is part of the Critics’ Week. The film is producers and fi lm-makers, João Matos, RAGE
co-produced by Portugal’s Maria & Mayer, France’s Les Pedro Pinho, Susana Nobre, Tiago
Films du Bélier and Brazil’s Syndrome Films. Hespanha, Leonor Noivo and Luísa Based on Manuel da Fonseca’s neo-realist novel
João Salaviza (Golden Palm winner in 2009 with the short Homem, Terratreme has consolidated Seara de Vento, Sérgio Tréfaut’s new fi lm is a tale
film Arena) is to unveil The Dead and the Others, which he its reputation as one Portugal’s most of poverty, survival and revolt set in the dried
co-directed with Renée Nader Messora, at Un Certain audacious indie companies. Still southern lands of Portugal during the dictatorship.
Regard. Produced by Karô Filmes, Salaviza’s second benefi ting from the critically acclaimed Beautifully photographed in black and white,
feature-length project is a documentary shot with the The Nothing Factory by Pedro Pinho, Rage is co-produced by Tréfaut’s Lisbon-based
indigenous people from the state of Tocantis in Brazil. Terratreme’s line-up is full of new titles outfi t Faux along with Films d’Ici (France)
Short-film Amor, Avenidas Novas will bring 22-year-old in preparation, including Pinho’s Amanhã and Refi neraria Filmes (Brazil).
director Duarte Coimbra to the Critics’ Week. Finally, Será Outro Dia and Cláudia Varejão’s
Teresa Villaverde’s Colo, Pedro Cabeleira’s Damned intriguing documentary Amor Fati.
Summer and Leonor Teles’ Terra Franca will be show at
ACID Trip Portugal. ✦

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