CYCLE What my dance says Vera Mantero - Cinema session: film preview documentary Vera Mantero
CICLO O QUE A MINHA DANÇA DIZ VERA MANTERO
Directed by Cristina Ferreira Gomes and authorship by Luiz Antunes
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The screening will be followed by a conversation between the film director, its author and the artist Vera Mantero.
CYCLE
What my dance says
Vera Mantero
DOCUMENTARY
VERA MANTERO
60' | 10 FEV FEB | 10PM
Serralves Auditorium
In the artistic process of the choreographer Vera Mantero is exemplary her continuous ability to discuss ideas and to react to junctures/scenarios that characterize the contemporary reality, to share them after with artists, performers, theorists and audiences, depending on her motivations and artistic expressions. For the artist questioning is imperative and acting is presenting.
The Vera Mantero documentary by Cristina Ferreira Gomes reveal how, for Mantero, life is a terribly complicated and rich phenomenon and the artistic work a continuous fight against the impoverishment of the spirit.
Filmed over the course of a year, between the cities of Porto and Lisbon, the documentary also follows, in an intimate way, the creating process of the piece A fright is a whole world, by Vera Mantero. At the same time, it takes us on a journey through the pathway of one of the most important contemporary artists.
Directed by: Cristina Ferreira Gomes
Authorship and interviews: Luiz Antunes
Production director: Ellen Igersheimer
Edition: Beatriz Tomaz
A production Mares do Sul for RTP2
Artist support: Programa Garantir Cultura
Production support: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
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Film director, founded the producer Mares do Sul.
The documentary Women at Sea, distinguished her in the realization. She received the revelation award at the Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival, in 2002.
The next documentary, Letter of Call, received the honorable mention for the best documentary and also the audience award for the best documentary at the Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival, in 2006. The film also included the Mostra Panorama and the Mostra do Cinema Português at São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro the following year. It was also screened at the Festival Filmes do Homem, 2016, and in the film cycle about emigration, organized by the Presidency of the Republic, in 2008.
In the area of dance, she filmed the documentary series Portugal que Dança, authored by Luiz Antunes, the video-dance The Art of Losing, from a piece of São Castro for the Almada Dance Company.
She is preparing the Olga Roriz documentary authored by Luiz Antunes.
She filmed the documentaries:
- The Last Days, Award for Best Documentary at FestIn Festival 2021, Festival Caminhos do Cinema Portuguese 2021.
-Girl Clean Dirty Girl, documentary about the artist Ana Vidigal
-Looking for António Botto
-Cesina Bermudes, A Life Just Not Enough
-Sunday Afternoon
-Laura
-Wines with History, documentary series
She actually making the feature film Outro Tempo, with the financial support of the Film and Audiovisual Institute.
Cristina Ferreira Gomes began her professional activity as a journalist, having also worked as a screenwriter and director of content in audiovisual producers. Between 2013 and 2016, he was on the jury at the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Awards of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.