The film critic and Portuguese Film Archive ‚ Film Museum’s programmer Luís Miguel Oliveira will be chatting, on sunday, the 26th, with Grazia Paganelli (author of the book and commissioner of the exhibition Signs of Vida ‚ Werner Herzog and the Cinema) and producer Lucki Stipetic (Herzog’s brother) about the German director’s work in Portugal.
That’s how this year’s LisbonTalks will start, occupying Cinema São Jorge’s second screening room on a daily bases (5h30 p.m.). Jacques Nolot (photo) is the Independent Hero to see and hear, on May 1st, talking with François Bonenfant, one of the French Film Museum’s programmers and expert of the director’s work, about film but also about life in general.
Until LisbonTalks ends, on May 2nd, there are imperative debates going on: The Appearance of New Directors in Portugal. Will there be space for them? (27th), Independent Film Screening Rooms in Portugal. Urgent? (28th), Film Action in Schools ‚ Using film as a pedagogical instrument in the classroom (29th), Portuguese Film’s Internationalization (30th), Film’s Critic. What’s the Critic for (May 2nd).
Active seminary: From Production to Exhibition
LisbonTalks continue the debate around Portuguese and international film industry, with an active seminary, on the 26th, at Hotel Flórida.
The active seminary, under Amândio Coroado’s orientation and with the generic heading From Production to Exhibition, with two morning panels (Where do pictures come from ‚ from the idea to production and Distribution ‚ Exhibition) and an afternoon session‚ Projects Presentation ‚ (Coaching), with Esther van Driesum of the Binger Filmlab.
On the seminary’s panels are directors André Gil Mata, João Canijo, João Nicolau, Renata Sancho and Marco Martins, and the producers Luís Urbano (O Som e a Fúria), Rodrigo Areias (Periferia Filmes) and Pedro Borges (Midas Filmes).