Currently, they’re both studying Anthropology at NOVA University and they are preparing their new documentary.

Ela pinta o cabelo de rosa | She dyes her hair pink

Portugal| 7’47’’| 2019

Realizadora|Director: Viv Li

School| DocNomads – Documentary Film Direction (European Joint Master Degree)

Synopsis

Youth, a period of life that is purposely wasted, but full-heartedly enjoyed. Following a young Portuguese girl’s hair dye endeavour, the director remembers her own libertine youth. A dialogue beyond time, space and culture

Biography

Viv Li is an accidental filmmaker that has worked in the UK, Brazil, Colombia, China and the Philippines. Born and raised in Beijing, she spent the past 10 years traveling and exploring her undefined self. The particular voice of her multi-cultural background has granted her a unique identity. Her works have focused on the sensibility and tangibility of moments, relationships, sexuality and self-awareness.

Gastão | Gastão

Portugal| 8’30’’ | 2019

Realizadora|Director: Tânia Teixeira

Produção | Production: Maria Moreira Escola

Escola Superior Artística do Porto, PT

Synopsis

Gastão Teixeira is a man in his seventies who lives in the Ribeira (Oporto, Portugal) area and since his retirement has been dedicated to finding bodies of people who voluntarily or involuntarily fall into the Douro

Biography

Tânia Teixeira has a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from the Porto Superior Artistic School. Her essay film Gastão – a film made in a tone of study for another film – was attended by in Porto/Post/ Doc 2019, in the category New Cinema, on Channel 180, was the Portuguese representative at the Festival Mental 2020.

Morcego | Bat (Murciélago)

Cuba | 10’00’’| 2018
Realizadora|Director: Claudia Claremi
Produção | Production: Claudia Claremi
School| Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, Cuba

Synopsis

Sensory essay through body and sound. Composition made from the trance and the vibration of macroscopic figures seen at a millimetric distance from the skin of eight people in Cuba

Synopsis

Sensory essay through body and sound. Composi[on made from the trance and the vibra[on of macroscopic figures seen at a millimetric distance from the skin of eight people in Cuba

Biography

Claudia Claremi. She graduated in Documentary Film at the EICTV, International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (2015-2018), and also in Fine Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, London (2009). She was awarded with the INJUVE 2015 grant and she is part of the online Archive of Creators of Madrid. She has directed the documentaries Centella, Murciélago , El Monte and Patio de Butacas. Her art projects and films have been exhibited in several countries as well as at international film festivals.

Shinigami | Shinigami

Portugal | 8’05’’| 2018
Realizadora|Director: Inês Paredes, Susana Nevado
Produção | Production: Diana Alves, Márcia Fernandes, Marta Fernandes Escola

Universidade do Minho, PT

Synopsis

Throughout the Portuguese forests and villages, in the last semester of 2017, the days were born with fire and died with it too. This is an experimental documentary telling the story of the fires of Braga and Trancoso

Biography

Inês Paredes graduated in Communication Sciences with a specialization in Audiovisual and Multimedia, from the University of Minho.

Pós-graduada em Design Editorial no Instituto Politécnico de Tomar e atualmente mestranda em Cinema na Universidade da Beira Interior.

Susana Nevado graduated in Communication Sciences with a specialization in Audiovisual and Multimedia from the University of Minho. Has a Master’s Degree in Design and Multimedia taken at the University of Coimbra.

Sonâmbula | Sleepwalker

EUA | USA | 9’02’’ | 2019

Realizadora|Director: Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung

Produção | Production: Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung

School | Stanford University, USA

Synopsis

What does it take to stay awake when the reality is tough and home is far away? Using archival footage of the Sunflower Movement that took place in Taipei, Taiwan in 2014 as a starting point, the filmmaker reflects on her ideas of home, politics, and the importance of being present.

Biography

Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She is curious about the world and passionate about telling stories of people who are in between places and those who strive to understand and overcome differences. She has worked on projects and screened her films in the UAE, the US, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, India, Sri Lanka, and beyond.

Variações | Variations

EUA | USA | 12’27’’ | 2019

Realizadora|Director: Inês Pedro e Melo Escola

Stanford University, USA Sinopse

At the San Francisco Ballet School, young aspiring dancers endure the pains of growing up as they strive to become professionals.

Biography

Inês Pedro e Melo is an aspiring documentary filmmaker and photographer from Lisbon, Portugal, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. With a background in media/film studies and anthropology, she has been drawn to documentary film as a way to (attempt to) understand human complexity and shape it into visual narratives.