EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS: Book of projects 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 Index 22 António Ferreira /Persona Non Grata Pictures AMERICA PedroPinho/ Terratreme www.terratreme.pt AMANHÃ Sérgio TrefautFaux/ A NOIVA/THE BRIDE PROGRAMME ConcepciónBarquero / Azharmedia Artés www.azharmedia.com UM FILME DEFERNANDORIUZ VERGARA Ivo Ferreira /Osom eafuria PROJECTO GLOBAL www.laclaqueta.com- www.acheronfilms.net - www.sp-i.pt/en Patricia Ortega / Acheron films -La Claqueta PC - SPi MAMACRUZ Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra /Uma pedra nosapato LÉGUA Polo Menárguez /Capitán Araña LA EDAD Lois Patiño &Matías Piñeiro /Filmika Galaika ARIEL GabrielDVEIN / www.dvein.com Azorín ANOCHE CONQUISTÉTEBAS www.faux.pt www.osomeafuria.com www.capitanarana.com www.pngpictures.com www.filmikagalaika.com www.umapedranosapato.com

1 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 2 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS ispossible thanks to: the winningproject in cash for the development of DE SEVILLAA FESTIVAL a International jur In thissecondeditionEUROPEANCOPRODUCTIONS, 5,000 € W ARD (editing andsound mixing) in post production services 5,000 € ESTUDIOS A ARTE SONORA y willgivethreea W ARD in RTP1in channel forbroadcasting rights 10,000 € RTP A w ards: W ARD by Concha Barquero & Alejandro Alvarado - “Umfilme deFernando Ruiz Vergara” - “Projecto Global” by Ivo Ferreira - “Ariel” by Lois Patiño &Matias Piñeiro - “Légua” by Filipa Reis & Joao Miller - “La edad” by Polo Menárguez projects, 15 minutes each: Pitch session (2ndpart). Presentation of 5 ZOOM FOR PROJECTS AND PRODUCERS 17:30 -18:45 Break 17:15 -17:30 - “Mamacruz” by Patricia Ortega “Anoche- conquisté Tebas”by Gabriel Azorín - “America” by Antonio Ferreira - “Amanhã” by Pedro Pinho - “A Noiva” by Sérgio Trefaut projects, 15 minutes each: Pitch session (1 ZOOM FOR PROJECTS AND PRODUCERS 16:00- 17:15 Piluca Querol (Andalucía Film Commission) Carlos Rosado (Spain Film Commission) Manuel Claro (Portugal Film Commission) Panellist: dalusia, Spain andPortugal Film Commissions. Special presentations andopportunities by An- ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE 15:20 -16:00 Elisa Rodríguez (ICAA)andMaría Mineiro (ICA) Cienfuegos (Director of Seville Film Festival), European Coproductions opening with José Luis ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE 15:00 -15:20 TUESDA Programme Y 10 st st part). Presentation of 5 th Award ceremony of European Coproduction 2 ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE 12:00 -12:30 Olmo Figueredo (La Claqueta CEO) Luis Urbano (Osom eafúria CEO) Maria Mineiro (ICA vice-president) Elisa Rodríguez (ICAA deputy director) Portugal. Panellist: a coproduction increase between Spain and Round table Tan cerca, tan lejos: Aimingat ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE 10:15 -11:45 Seville Film Festival) Seville) and José Luis Cienfuegos (Director of Opening by João Queirós (Consul of Portugal in ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE 10:00 -10:15 WEDNESDA One-to-one meetings for producers ZOOM ROOMS 16:00 -19:00 (RTP). Sara SantaellaFragoso(ARTEand José SONORA) Jury members: Marta Velasco (Aralan Films), rights in RTP1 channel) services) andRTP (10000€for broadcasting Arte Sonora award (5000 €in post-production edition: Seville film festival award (5000 €), Y 11 th nd

3 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 4 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA pregnant again. pregnant Now she has two children to take care of andis changed. She isliving in anIraqi prison camp. Three years later, her life has dramatically became abride of the Jihad. away from home to marry a Daesh fighter. She A teenager girlfrom aChristian background ran SYNOPSIS The bride,agirl´slifeafterthewar A noiva Mitosfilm Production Company:Faux /Les films d´ici/ Director: Sérgio Tréfaut The Bride isbased on atrue story. washing done to her? law? What have three years of war and brain- the death sentence she might face under Iraqi Will the western countries try to save her from be put on trial. She isthe widow of two jihadists and will soon Project type:Feature film Producer: Faux the Dead premiered at IDFA (the Meca of docu- ro Islamic Cemeteries in 2007-2009. The City of East while shooting The City of the Dead in Cai - and on TVs worldwide. Hediscovered the Middle ternational film festivals andshown in cinemas guages. All hisfilms have been presented at In- with three passports and fluent in many lan- Sérgio Tréfaut isamulti-award winning director BIO DIRECTOR of cinemas in Portugal. in of cinemas tributes these films throughout a wide network RTV (South Corea), among others. Faux alsodis RTP, CineTV (Portugal), Canal Brasil, GNT (Brazil), Canal Sur, Canal História (Spain), ERT (Greece), gium), YLE (Finland), SVT (Sweden), Cataluña, TV3 (France-Germany), WDR (Germany), RTBF (Bel- broadcastby channels TV around the world: ARTE awards at International film festivals andbeen diences. All films in Faux’s catalogue have won independent feature films for international au- 2003. It deals with creative documentaries and ated by Sérgio Tréfaut andbased in since Producer Faux isafilm production company cre- PRODUCTION COMPANY - +351 917 847 794 [email protected] 1100-608 Lisbon, Portugal Calçadinha do Tijolo 48, 2º CONTACTS local crew. have already been chosen in cooperation with a FILM as executive producer. Most of the locations the Kurdistan region andin Mosul with MITOS- visited Iraq. Hehas been preparing THE BRIDE in He has begun learning Arabic and has frequently Madrid 2010. mentary film) and was the winner of Documenta Producer/ Director Sérgio Trefaut european coproductions ATTENDING

5 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 6 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA these two local residents are motivated by a ity, ALBERTO meets EMA and BEN. Just like him, rampant capitalism andapost-colonial mental- pean has to endure in asociety dominated by and the inherent loneliness that a white Euro- harshness of the elements, the oppressive heat the jungle andthe desert. Taken aback by the tal engineer on a road-building project to link Bissau and Luanda), to work as anenvironmen- nary, futuristic city that issimilar to both Guinea travels to a West African metropolis (an imagi- who has decided to make a change in hislife, ALBERTO, a Portuguese environmental engineer SYNOPSIS Tomorrow Amanhã Production Company:Terratreme Director: Pedro Pinho Project type:Feature film Hespanha Producer: Tiago found questions of identity. unequal expectations. This leads them to pro- and BENengage in anintimate relationship with about global economic interests, ALBERTO, EMA conflicts with local communities and suspicions about to fall apart.Between the unconcealed the rainy season approaches, everything seems both the building yard andthe NGOoffices. As widespread among hisexpatriate colleagues at brutalisation andgeneralised barbarity that is his mental health in the midst of aprocess of three of them becomes the only guarantee of igins. For ALBERTO, the connection between the strong desire to escape andshake off their or - its activities through international co-produc Chicago, New York, Toronto), all while expanding Sebastian, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Berlin, Locarno, Nyon, Marseille, Rotterdam, San major film festivals around the world (Cannes, among Portuguese production companies, in TERRATREME has one of the strongest presences, ing with alarge anddiverse group of filmmakers, to generate the desired results. Currently work the production plan andbudget can contribute tion of the directors in the global conception of turns We out. believe that only direct interven - fundamental aesthetic variable in the way afilm time for usto acknowledge that production isa on the ship-owner that hired them —it was high ermen unites to buy aboat and stop depending mous film by Visconti — where agroup of fish- mine the production model. Like the homony method where each film’s needs would deter was to articulate research and creation in a work in which their own films were made. Ourgoal suit the different forms, scales andtime frames filmmakers to find aproduction model that could 2008 that came out of the urge of afew young TERRATREME isafilm production house created in PRODUCTION COMPANY and at DocLisboa. at the Art of The Real in the Lincoln Center, NY debuted in 2014at FIDMarseille, and was shown Trading Cities (co-directed with Luisa Homem) awards. The documentary, As Cidades eas Trocas/ was nominated for the Portuguese Golden Globe Caminhos doCinema Português, and Berlin Festival in 2013, having won awards at the a medium-length fiction film, debuted at the (Brazil). UmFim DoMundo/The End of the World, Film at DocLisboa (Portugal) andat ForumDoc BH Bab Sebta also won prizes for Best Documentary ico Lobo), won the Marseille Espérance Award. umentary, Bab Sebta (co-directed with Freder Barcelona, Maputo andMindelo. Hisfirst doc Pedro Pinho has studied cinema in Lisbon, Paris, BIO DIRECTOR [email protected] 1700-089 Lisboa, Portugal Campo Grande, 111 Terratreme Filmes CONTACTS european coproductions ATTENDING Producer Tiago Hespahna Karlovy Vary, among others. de Barcelona, Festival deMunique, FIC Valdivia, Rotterdam FF, Busan FF, FICUNAM, L’Alternativa the MACBA, Serralves, FIDMarseille, Toronto IFF, the Lincoln Center, the Berlinale, BFI,the MALBA, ings and retrospectives in places such as: MoMA, His films have been shown at festivals, show - dom…among others. Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the United King- was commercially distributed in Portugal, France, at festivals allover the world. A Fábrica deNada A Fábrica deNada has received around 20awards FIPRESCI International Critics award. Since then, de Nada/The Nothing Factory” (2007) won the His first feature-length fiction film “A Fábrica Director Pedro Pinho

7 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 8 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA over. She comes everyday to hishouse through decides to win the lovely andstunning América famous star.TV Lucas, the deformed poorman, who falls in love with América, the perfect and er, heisfriends with anaggressive policeman; neighborhood of the city with hisblind moth - Lucas, 30 years old,butcher, lives in ahumble SYNOPSIS America America Production Company:Persona non grata pictures Director: AntónioFerreira Project type:Feature film Producer: Tathiani Sacilotto, AntonioFerreira of Lucas the butcher and América the star. die for. This isthe story of the unlikely encounter mysterious man who gifts her daily with meals to her knowledge. She will fall in love with the house, cook the most delicious dishes, without the TV. Lucas will start to break into América’s between Portugal, Brazil and Spain. In2012 re- prize winner JoséSaramago,a co-production ture “Embargo”, anadaptation from the Nobel national prizes. In2010 releases hissecond fea- Wasn’t God’s Will” winning over adozen inter 2007 releases the short film “Deus Não Quis / It most successful movies in Portugal that year. In a co-production with France, become one of the o que te disse / Forget Everything I’ve Told You”, In 2002 releases his first feature “Esquece tudo Breathing Under Water” isselected in Cannes. his first short film “Respirar (debaixo d’água) / und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB).In2000 School (ESTC). In1996 enters the Deutsche Film António Ferreira studied at the Lisbon Film BIO DIRECTOR ducers Tathiani Sacilottoand AntónioFerreira. is currentlyThe PNGPICTURES directed by the pro- relation to the public. works with anauthor pedigree as well as close igin, through the vision of its creators, producing thinking andimagination of the countries of or vision channels. Ourfilms express the culture, world, as well as in movie theatres andtele - lowed a wide circulation in festivals around the The international character of ourfilms, has al- tugal, Spain, France, Germany andMozambique. with several countries -Brazil, Argentina, Por has produced roughly 30 films in co-production Founded in 1999, PERSONA NONGRATA PICTURES PRODUCTION COMPANY - - - [email protected] CONTACTS european coproductions ATTENDING hundred film festivals worldwide. overwon over fortyin prizes a international films andproduced over thirty. Hisfilms have In his career, António Ferreira has directed nine and French cinemas the year after. movie in hishomeland and released in Brazilian Brazil, which became the most seen Portuguese a co-production between Portugal, France and 2018 releases “Pedro eInês/ The Dead Queen”, ki, Peter Greenaway and Manoel de Oliveira. In tors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Aki Kaurisma- of Culture, among other 20international direc commission for the Guimarães European Capital Canhão /Posfácio At The Clothing Factory”, a leases the short film “Posfácio nas confecções Producer Tathiani Sacilotto Director Antonio Ferreira -

9 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 10 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA Last nightIconqueredthecityofThebes Anoche conquistéTebas fesses to his friend something that he has been their own way. At nightfall, one of them con- for fun; each of them enjoys the experience in the afternoon. Some are looking for rest, others they meet several groups that have gone to spend Spain to bathe in ancient Roman baths. There, A few Portuguese boys cross the border with SYNOPSIS Production Company:DVEIN Films GabrielDirector: Azorín from those of the Portuguese boys. age and their concerns are not much different the Roman soldiers who built the baths. Their people who are contemplating that sky. They are starry sky. But there isanother group of young that remains is the steam of the water and the thinking about for along time. As they leave, all Project type:Feature film Producer: Carlos Pardo tion Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), Reel premiered in the official section of Visions du Mudanza Contemporánea (2018) by Teo Guillem, premiered at the Locarno Festival (Switzerland); Violeta +Guillermo (2018) by Oscar Vincentelli, and since then have produced the short films In 2017 they create abranch called DVEIN Films awards StaffPicks as numerous Vimeo ty of San Carlos de Valencia (2013), among other (2012) andthe Medal of Fine Arts of the Universi- been awarded the nent collectionof ma, one of hisshort films, ispart of the perma- festivals and exhibitions around the world. Mag- er National Geographic, MTV or Jean Paul-Gaulti- Timoteo Guillem and working for clients such as born from DVEIN in 2007 by Carlos Pardo and DVEIN Films isaproduction company that was PRODUCTION COMPANY the first feature film by lacasinegra , premieres at lective In 2009 hefounded the artistic research col- in Spain. Fotogramas the publications Caimán Cuadernos deCine and twenty international festivals and considered by The short film Greyhounds has been selected in Iberoamericana of México DF. ties of Saint Denis-Paris VIII andthe Universidad completes hisstudies with stays in the universi- San Sebastián International Film Festival). He degree from EQZE(a program associated with the ECAM (Madrid Film School) andapostgraduate He isan Spanish filmmaker with adiploma from BIO DIRECTOR European Film Festival of Seville (Spain). (Germany) and awarded the DELUXE award at the by María Antón Cabot, premiered in DOK:Leipzig Festival by the Jury at the Guanajuato International Film . DVEIN’s work has been presented in multiple in in (Switzerland) and winner of a Jury Award at Seville European Film Festival and has also Cinema Jove (Spain) andaSpecial Mention (Mexico) andthe feature film <3(2018) lacasinegra. In2014Pas àGenève, the as one of the best short films of 2012 MoMA in New York. They have City of Barcelona Film Award SpezialMen Jury- . GabrielDVEIN / www.dvein.com Azorín [email protected] 28005 Madrid Calle Carlos Arniches, 25, 1ºDcha. Ext. Carlos Pardo Ros CONTACTS european coproductions ATTENDING Film Festival. Ikusmira-Berriak residenceatthe San Sebastián at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola andlater at the first fiction feature film andhas been developed ‘Last night I conquered the city of Thebes’ ishis European Film Festival. um-length documentary Mutants at the Seville In November 2016 hepremiered the medi- to, Mecal andReykjavik. Entrevues deBelfort, Porto/Post/Doc, Curtocircuí- been selected in international festivals such as In 2015 the short film Tomorrow, the bullet has prestigious Scribe among others, and has been nominated for the D’Autor de Barcelona and Lima Independiente, been selected in It’salltrue (Brazil), Márgenes, Producer Carlos Pardo 2014award. Director Gabriel Azorín

11 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 12 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA Ariel Ariel Islands. She departs to her first destination: the Azores Gomesende, Andrea is called to begin the tour. Aires in the 1950s. While preparing for the play in grandparents’ siblings who emigrated to Buenos Galician, soshe decides to go in search of her company Vaodora. Onher way, she must learn liam Shakespeare’s The Tempestby Galicianthe cia to join in atour to perform a version of Wil - Andrea, an Argentinean actress travels to Gali - SYNOPSIS Production Company:Filmika Galaika Director: Lois Patiño/ Matías Piñeiro over the island. that seem to indicate that The Tempest has taken goes further into the island she finds new clues speare’s play among the brambles, but as she sets andsome objects from William Shake- traces of her mission. First hefinds costumes, nature of the island she begins to glimpse some be performed but finds nothing. Getting into the tries to find the theater where the play would Once there, she finds noone to welcome her. She Project type:Feature film Producer: Beli Martínez Enciso (Non). uel M.Delgado (Eles transport amorte) andEloy Alberto Gracia (La Parra), Helena Girón and Sam- with new projects by the Galician filmmakers: consolidating itsposition on the national scene phase of internationalization. Filmika Galaika is At the moment, the company isin animportant women filmmakers. City Council, aimed at raising the visibility of Cinema eMuller, supported by the Pontevedra Filmika Galaika has developed projects such as Doc’s Kingdom, Niemeyer Center orCENDEAC. Sofía, Museum of the Moving Image (New York), museums andart centers such as, Museo Reina Their productions have alsobeen exhibited in and the online festival Márgenes, among others. del Plata, Trasncinema (Peru), Play-Doc, Zinebi tion in renowned festivals such as Locarno, Mar bitions. Theyhave receivedawards and recogni - a hundred festivals and international film exhi- by Filmika Galaika has participated in more than (Eloy Domínguez, IDFA, 2020). The work produced (Xurxo Chirro, FIDMarseille, 2011)andOs corpos Noite (Eloy Enciso, 2019, Locarno IFF), Vikingland so-called Novo Cinema Galego, such as Longa of some of the most outstanding works of the cian filmmaking due, mainly, to the production Filmika Galaika has become a reference in Gali- Filmika Galaika was founded in 2009. Since then, PRODUCTION COMPANY mont-Ferrand (France) to name afew. In2013, at the Oberhausen Festival (Germany), andCler His work Mountain in Shadow earned him awards a deepaesthetic sensibility”. pendentspirit, whoexplore diverse cultures with aimed at emerging filmmakers “with aninde- awarded him the Robert Fulton III Scholarship, (SanArts Francisco). In 2016, Harvard University Lab), orthe CalArtsCalifornia (L.A.) College of the versities such as Harvard (Sensory Ethnography He has been invited to show his work at uni- cisco, among others. as Berlin, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, San Fran- His films have been shown at film festivals such Lois Patiño(Spain,1983) BIO DIRECTOR - www.filmikagalaika.com [email protected] Produtora FILMIKA GALAIKA Beli Martínez CONTACTS european coproductions ATTENDING Archives (NY, USA). Festival (Pamplona, Spain) and Anthology Film tian, Spain). He programs in Punto de Vista Film ment at Elías Querejeta Zine Escola (San Sebas France) and coordinates the filmmaking depart national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, Institute (New York -USA), Le Fresnoy - Studio Shakespeareads”. He teaches filmmaking at Pratt been developing aseries of films called “The in New York, USA. For the last ten years hehas Writer anddirector of films, he currently lives Matías Piñeiro(BuenosAires,Argentina1982) other awards in many festivals. ‘Costa da Morte’. A work that has also received 15 at the Locarno Festival with hisfirst feature film he received the award for best emerging director Producer Beli Martínez - -

13 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 14 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA Age La edad crossroads seemingly at odds with Daniel’s own in itspath. However, Ana soon finds herself at a ship that will struggle to overcome every barrier together,moving in they embark a relation on Daniel immediately fall for each other and after party. Despite their age difference, Ana and years her junior- at a mutual friend’s birthday Ana isthirty-eight when she meets Daniel -ten SYNOPSIS Production Company:Capitán araña Director: Polo Menárguez - biological clock. Can their relationship survive? a dilemma of racing against time and her own and giving up motherhood will thrust Ana into tor. Adapting to her partner’s professional goals to achieve hisdream of becoming afilm direc children isquickly closing just as Daniel isabout life: the window of opportunity for her to have Project type:Feature fiction Producer: Nacho La Casa - with Poland. ‘Norbert’, a new animated feature co-produced and developing other projects such as ‘A Son’ or post-production of ‘Sevillanas from Brooklyn’ Barco. The company is currently involved in the tonio dela Torre, Raúl Arévalo andChema del Plan’, directed by Polo Menárguez starring An- In February 2020, Captain Araña premiered ‘The ternational grossing Spanish film in 2017. Israel, South Korea...) being the third highest in- (Russia, Italy, France, Poland, Mexico, Argentina, was alsoin the Top 10international premieres Writers Circle and the Gaudí Awards. Likewise, it (Best Animated Film), alsoawarded at the Film mated Film andBest Sound) andaPlatino Award was nominated for two Goya Awards (Best Ani- 10 highest grossing Spanish films of the year and in over 60 countries. The film was among the Top ture comedy was released in 2016 and premiered budget of over 7million euros. The family adven- ‘Ozzy’, ourfirst 3Danimated feature film with a Our passion for storytelling inspired usto create the Netherlands orRussia. as the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, been adapted internationally in countries such the fact that many of these formats have later jor Spanish networks. TV Worth mentioning is both entertainment andfiction formats for ma- Capitán Araña’s team has produced content in Capitán Araña was founded in 2002. Since then, PRODUCTION COMPANY subject of migration, in 2017 heshot ‘Winter in the Madrid-PNR Film Festival. Interested in the Film Festival and received a special mention at nominated for Best Opera Prima at the Toulouse encia2013. Sectionin That same yearhe was competed at the Seville Film Festival’s Resist first feature film, the mumblecore ‘Two Friends’ various television andadvertising projects. His tute.He currently film combineshis career with and finished aFilmmaking Master at Insti RTVE - Communication at Carlos IIIUniversity in Madrid tor and screenwriter. He studied Audiovisual Polo Menárguez isafilm andtelevision direc BIO DIRECTOR - - CONTACTS www.capitanarana.com [email protected] european coproductions ATTENDING 2020to resounding criticalacclaim. same name premiered in cinemas in February Festival, this theater adaptation of aplay by the and itsinclusion at the Seville European Film screened in the Official Section of SEMINCI 2019 Antonio dela Torre andRaúl Arévalo. After being York. His latest feature film is ‘ThePlan’, starring Award for Best Documentary at the IIFF in New film also received the prestigious Harry Randall and earned aspecial mention by the Jury. The ture, which competedatin Valladolid SEMINCI ’ in Serbia, hisfirst documentary fea - Producer Casa La Nacho Director Polo Menárguez

15 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 16 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA Legua Légua terwards and,as is his custom, leaves without chaotic stays at Botica. He disappears shortly af owner of the house, appears for one of hisshort, Guilherme, a Jesuit priest, the brother of the Lisbon owners have stopped visiting regularly. to fend for herself in the big house, which the - Emília has nofamily and cannot beleft alone biguous gesture of obligation andselflessness es to take care of her friend as well, in an am- When Emília becomes seriously ill, Ana propos mother of two young adults, who study abroad. of Victor, who isgoing back to France again, and workers.hard-working Ana,a womanand wife and Emília, representing two generations of farm manor house is looked after by good friends Ana Northern Portugal, village of Légua. The Botica SYNOPSIS Production Company:Uma pedra nosapato Director: Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra present Desvia and KG Productions Uma Pedra no Sapato, cycle and never anendin itself. that renewala experienced,a of fully be must moment a death makes lived life fully a that is truth the But living. worth to us for day di’cult a as conceiveseen be can death that still It’s died. father João's when moment the relive still we Yearsface. the later,in deathconfront to us prepares religion or belief of kind No portray to everlasting youth. media the with line in bodies, symmetrical beautiful the of countering tendency etched, are life’s which hardships on bodies capture to want We mountains. and rivers region’s the of greycontrastingpicturesand oŠergreen naked eye, the while the more open shots towill visible not are that elements the The more closed shots will give texture to - - from which she can see no way out. into the situation in which she finds herself, ingly pressured andlost, involuntarily dragged everything as it always was, Ana feels increas between Ana and Emília andthe eort to keep handed over for sale. Despite the friendship the house has, without Ana’s knowledge, been bouts of violence. Then anew threat appears - the inevitable provocations generate small daily her illness worsens: the unspoken, the friction, lationship between Ana andEmília changing as The dynamics of the house slowly evolve, the re- no future for her mother in the village. unhappy with her mother’s choice. Mónica, sees a friend to visit the village andis, like her father, any explanation. Ana’s daughter, Mónica, brings Project type:Feature fiction UMA PEDRA NO SAPATO (PT) Producer: Rachel Ellis, DESVIA (BR)Filipa Reis,

A lm directed by by directed lm A Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra Miller João & Reis Filipa - decides to stay withherfriendEmília. Ana But him. join to her for waiting is and France to emigrated Ana’s has husband ill. seriously Emília, is Emilia and workers. Ana farm of generations two friends representing good by Légua. The Botica manor house is looked of after village Portugal, Northern as if they formed an ever-changing unit. ever-changing an formed they if as will actions versa, vice and characters the nature's on reflect terms, formal In a peaceful acceptance ofdeath. and fearlessness strength, discovers Ana that demise imminent Emília's with confrontation the in is It death. her until side her by remaining and disease her in old friend Emília to the end, caring for her a real her How with stays Ana, woman, middle-aged friendship. on female exploring based in film, interested are we spaces this and characters In future. near the in life rural of end the approaching the and both past its to of romanticism due bucolic Portugal, of interior northern the in Légua, of village the for fascination a is point starting film’s The programs, under the brand VENDE-SE FILMES. and contemporary episodic drama to non-fiction broadcasters in Portugal, ranging from historical also produces television content for the main André Gil Mata and Leonor Teles. The company rida Cardoso, Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra, Marga Marco Martins, Gomes, Miguel directors ternational co-production features by Portuguese UMA PEDRA NO SAPATO is currently developing in- European Fim Awards Best Short 2019 nominee). BFI), Dogs Barking at Birds (Venice –Orizzonti, A Pleasure, Comrads! (Locarno -Fuori Concorso, Day (La Semaine de la Critique – Cannes, NYFF), Competition, FIPRESCIaward IFF Uruguay), Party tary Malaga IFF),Djon Africa (Rotterdam - Tiger national 1st Film Mar del Plata, Best Documen- Franca (SCAMaward Cinéma duRéel, Best Inter linale Shorts, FireBird Award Hong Kong IFF), Terra tions: Batrachian’s Ballad (Golden Bear -Ber all over the world. Relevant awards andselec distributionnetworkinand via and cable VOD TV internationaldomesticand cinematic release, Leipzig, Hong Kong, Jeonju, Clérmont-Ferrand), carno, IDFA, Cinema duRéel, FIDMarseille, DOK festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Lo- tive documentary with world premieres in major João Miller Guerra, invests in fiction and crea- Lisbon, founded by filmmakers Filipa Reis and Independent film production company based in UMA PEDRANOSAPATO PRODUCTION COMPANY fiction feature, LÉGUA. In2008they’ve started Brazil. They are presently writing their second and was commercially releasedPortugalin and and Jury Honorable Mention in Uruguay IFF 2018 Rotterdam 2018 (Tiger Awards), won the FRIPESCI CA, their debut feature fiction film, premiered in cLisboa, IndieLisboa, among others. DJON AFRI- Fidocs, Festival deiPopoli, Olhar deCinema, Do- tors New Films, IDFA, DokLeipzig, BAFICI, Bordocs, such as Rotterdam, Cinéma duRéel, New Direc co-direct films selected andawarded in festivals live and work together in Lisbon, Portugal. They Filipa Reis (1977) and João Miller Guerra (1974) BIO DIRECTOR [email protected] CONTACTS european coproductions ATTENDING work television and cable. content broadcasted in prime time national net hours of engaging andindependent television Filipa and João directed and produced over 100 La Critique). Under the brand VENDE-SE FILMES, and Sofia Bost andDuarte Coimbra (Semaine de Leonor Teles (Golden Bear Berlinale 2016)Shorts garida Cardoso, Marco Martins andnewcomers Portuguese directors such as Miguel Gomes, Mar duction features by talented andprize winning their own films but alsointernational co-pro- SAPATO, where they develop, produce anddirect their own production company, UMA PEDRA NO Director Reis Filipa Director João Miller Guerra - -

17 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 18 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA Mamacruz Mamacruz dental encounter with pornography, poses adi - mother learns how to use the internet. An acci - When her daughter emigrates, a religious grand- SYNOPSIS PC/ La Cruda Realidad/ SPi (Portugal) Production Company:Mamacruz AIE/ La Claqueta Ortega Director: Patricia and shameless orgasm? surrender to the tempting search of a delicious lay down how to beadecent woman ordoes she lemma for her: does she uphold the beliefs with Project type:Feature film Producer: OlmoFigueredo González-Quevedo ia, 2016). Platino Award for Best Documentary (Born in Syr Iris Television Award (Born in Syria, 2016) anda 2019; Born in Syria, 2016; Born in Gaza, 2014),an 2019), three Forqué Awards (The Endless Trench, received two Goya Awards (TheEndless Trench, Manuel H.Martín. La Claqueta’s productions has ed documentary The longest voyage, directed by mos, directed by Carlos Sedes, andthe animat abé Rico, the romantic drama El verano que vivi- the comedy OneCareful Owner, directed by Bern- Tudor Giurgiu. In2020 will be released, alongside Forqué Awards; as well as Parking, directed by International Film Festival andBest Film at the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastian Goya Awards (Best Actress andBest Sound), the by Arregi, Garaño andGoenaga, which won two release of the year, The Endless Trench, directed rected by Paco Cabezas, tenth biggest commercial nies in southern Spain. In2019 released Bye, di- prolific andaward-winning production compa- and since then it has become one of the most Figueredo andManuel H.Martín 18 years ago, La Claqueta was founded in Sevilla by Olmo PRODUCTION COMPANY Absences (2018). Kataa ou-outa (2007), The Invisible T (2017) and Soles DosMundos (2007), ElNiño (2006),Shuá Boda de Blanco (2001), Across the Sea (2005), Dos utive producer: Sueños deHanssen (2000), La umentaries as director, screenwriter andexec She has made the following short films anddoc (Germany). graduated from the FILMAKADEMIE in Ludwisburg of San Antonio (Cuba), delosBaños EICTV and the International School of Film and Television gree in Social Communication, graduated from dragora Films production company (2009). De- Patricia Ortega (1977) isthe founder of the Man- BIO DIRECTOR - - - - CONTACTS [email protected] Tel. +34954406 379 Av. deItalia, 11, 41012 Sevilla, Spain La Claqueta PC -Oficina european coproductions ATTENDING Screenplay Award at the QFest Film Festival 2019. the LGBT Roze Filmdagen Film Festival 2019. Best leurbanne 2019. Best Mix Feature Film Award at du Cinéma Ibérique et Latino-Americain de Vil- Seminci (2018). Audience Award at the Festival 2018, among others. Awards: Espiga Arcoiris, dalajara International Film Festival 2019, Seminci national festival route such as SXSW 2019, Gua- senting Venezuela, it is currently on it’sinter pre-candidate for the Oscar 2020 awards repre- uted by HBOin the United States. Selected as a the Women Finishing Film Fund (WIFF).Distrib- as International Film Festival in Colombia and Producers Meeting of the Cartagena deIndi- Impossible) (2018), won the First Prize of the Her first feature film “Yo, Imposible” (Being Producer Figueredo Olmo Director Ortega Patricia -

19 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 20 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA Global Project Projecto Global collides head-oncollides a changing with countryand makes them grow closer. But their idealism they share political views andadaily life that far-left clandestinearmedorganization where post-Revolutionary country. They are part of a a group of young people disappointed at the Portugal,the roaring 1980’s. A womanjoins SYNOPSIS Komplizen Film Production Company:Osom eafúria / Director: Ivo M.Ferreira

giving up. giving their desire to continue andthe inevitability of love anddeath. Trapped, they hesitate between of bank robberies, bombs, friendships, prison, ward, they live clandestine existences made up Fleeing on a road with no return andno way for a large-scale police operation targeting them. Project type:Feature film LuísProducer: Urbano, Sandro Aguilar - been producing. a Fúria began distributing the work that it has “Clarin”. At the same time, since 2003, O Som e Yorker”, “New York Times”, “Film Comment” and ma”, “Sight & Guardian”,Sound”, “The “New international publications as “Cahiers duCine- are usually present in Years Best Films lists, in Chile, Mexico, USA and Japan. Itsproductions Belgium,dom, Switzerland,Brazil, Argentina, among others, France, Germany, United King- ture films have been commercially screened in, backbone of this production company. It’s fea- the individual universes of itsauthors, are the proposals, associated with the development of independent auteur cinema. The quality of its tion in order to establish a connection with The company isfully dedicated to film produc O Som eaFúria was created in September 1998. PRODUCTION COMPANY Portugal, heshot in Angola, Indonesia andChi- ed andproduced hisfirst documentary. Besides traveling. Onajourney through China, hedirect the University of Budapest, which he gave up for Artistic High School, the London Film School and ple of actors, he was astudent at António Arroio Ivo M.Ferreira was born in 1975. Son of a cou- BIO DIRECTOR - - CONTACTS www.osomeafuria.com +351 213 582 518 [email protected] european coproductions ATTENDING [1998]. [2002], ANGOLA EMCENA [2002] andOQUE FOI? SABINO [2003], SOIA DIPRÍNCIPE [2002], EM VOLTA [2006], SALTO EM BARREIRA [2004], À PROCURA DE MIL [2009], VAI COM O VENTO [2009], FIOS DE FIAR FROM WAR [2016], OESTRANGEIRO [2010], ÁGUAS na. Filmography: EMPIRE HOTEL [2018], LETTERS Producer Urbano Luis Director Ivo M.Ferreira

21 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 22 INDUSTRY GUIDE European Coproductions: Portugal 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA A filmbyFernandoRuiz Vergara Vergara Um filmedeFernandoRuiz them in ourown way. unfinished projects, reinterpret them, andfilm outline anidea: to pick upsome of Fernando’s various different reasons. Bit by bit, we began to films that he never actually went ahead with, for He left behind numerous scripts andnotes on in Portugal where helived until hisdeath in 2011. er projects. Vergara went into self-imposed exile (1980), was the seed for the frustration of hislat ra, the censorship suffered by hisonly film, Rocío For the Andalusian director Fernando Ruiz Verga- SYNOPSIS Production Company:Azharmedia Director: Concha Barquero and Alejandro Alvarado - act in life. story of aman who clings to cinema as hislast continuation of aninterrupted project. It isthe tion anddesires. This film isto some extent the feel that these films exist in people’simagina- resistance, dissidence and creative force. We imental essay that throws upquestions about Um filme deFernando Ruiz Vergara isanexper Project type:Documentary film Rodríguez Producer: Sara SánchezManuel & José - Seminci, OLA (Los Angeles)… Film Festival, Festival deCine Europeo de Sevilla, vals such as Berlinale, Hong Kong International successfully participated in international festi- Azhar Media produces documentaries that have Andalusia… As well as the services that we offer, Innovation andEducation in the Government of Eurosport., Kikim Media (USA), Departments of work, Sevilla FC, NorthOneUK,Reshet (Israel),TV cies. Some of our clients include: Cartoon Net national andinternational producers andagen- tising, fiction, documentaries andtelevision for we have provided production services for adver Andalusia and Spain. Since our creation in 2010, tion of documentaries andproduction services in project aimed towards the international produc Rodríguez founded Azhar Media in 2010,anew years, the producers Sara Sánchez and José M. of films, documentaries andspotsfor over 7 AZHAR MEDIA After working on the production PRODUCTION COMPANY involved in cultural, popular science andeduca- (USA). Since 2001, Alvarado &Barquero have been toria andFilms for the Humanities & Sciences like Canal Plus, Televisión Española, Canal His and have been broadcast in television channels United States, United Kingdom and Australia), val Cinema and Techonology World Tour (Canada, (Osnabrück, Germany) orthe International Festi- al Film Festival (Argentina), European Media Art the world, such as Mar del Plata Internation- pated in numerous audiovisual festivals around videoart, television programmes –have partici- and documentary filmmaking. His works -films, bined both cultural andeducational television sity of Malaga. Professionally, they have com- ga, 1975) are filmmakers andlecturers at Univer CONCHABARQUERO Y ALEJANDRO ALVARADO.(Mála- BIO DIRECTOR - - - - - CONTACTS www.azharmedia.com +34 954045 361 [email protected] 41001 Sevilla Paseo Colón, 71ºC MEDIA AZHAR S.L. the XXIX AndalusiaPrize of Journalism tivals like Documenta Madrid andalso received been widely awarded at international film fes 40 cities of 16 countries. ‘Pepe el Andaluz’ has festivals, cultural centres and museums in over Andaluz’ (2012), which has been screened at film feature-length film isthe documentary ‘Pepe el brated generation of Spanish . Their first Generation 27’ Anthology’ (2009), on the cele- jeres’ (2014)anddocumentary series such as ‘The ‘Warmi. Algunos apuntes sobre La Paz y susmu- umentaries: ‘El reverso dela realidad’ (2007), they have codirected several social issues doc Andalucia. Regarding documentary filmmaking, television programme broadcast by Canal Sur 2 respectively of ‘Tesis’ (2001-2011), adocumentary tional television, as a director and a scriptwriter Producer Calvo José Manuel Rodríguez Director Barquero Concha european coproductions ATTENDING Director Alejandro Alvarado - -

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