Fernando Matos Silva

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Fernando Adalberto Vieira de Matos Silva (born May 22, 1940 in Vila Viçosa ) is a Portuguese director.

Life

He broke off an economics degree at the University of Lisbon in order to devote himself entirely to his passion for films. In 1962 he worked in the field for the first time, as an assistant in Artur Ramos ' film Pássaros de Asas Cortadas ( Eng .: birds with cut off wings). In the same year António da Cunha Telles founded his first production company, and Silva became assistant director there . a. for some of the most important works of Novo Cinemas , including Os Verdes Anos (1963, directed by Paulo Rocha ) and Belarmino (1964, directed by Fernando Lopes ). He also assisted François Truffaut on the Lisbon part of the filming of The Sweet Skin .

He went to the London School of Film Technique (now London Film School ) on a state film scholarship , where he graduated in directing in 1963. In 1965 he founded, together with Fernando Lopes, Alberto Seixas Santos , Alfredo Tropa and Manuel Costa, the film company Média , which u. a. 1971 Uma Abelha na Chuva produced. Silva first directed a short film in 1968. In 1969 he co-founded the pioneering film collective Centro Português de Cinema . In the Portuguese colonial war he was drafted into the military again in 1969 and integrated into its film department, where he taught and among others. a. participated in the production of military training films. In this context he stayed in Guinea-Bissau in 1969 and 1970 .

He made his first full-length feature film in 1973 with O Mal-Amado (Eng: The Unloved), using material that he had filmed in Guinea-Bissau. The film in which a woman directs her morbid admiration for her fallen brother to her boyfriend addressed the issue of the colonial war. It was banned by the repressive Estado Novo regime and confiscated by the police. The film was not shown until after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and was the first film previously banned by the censors to be shown publicly. Its premiere coincided with the decision by the revolutionaries to contact the independence movements before a regular government was formed in order to end the colonial war immediately.

After a series of political documentaries and feature films during the 1970s, he turned to television to earn a living, where he shot various television series for the public service RTP . In addition to directing various documentaries, he was responsible a. a. for the program Cinemagazine , in which mainly newly released films were presented.

It was only with O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (German: The Boy of the Flying Trapeze) that he reappeared as a cinema director in 2002, which was followed by another movie in 2010.

Filmography

  • 1968: Por um fio ... (short film, also editing and screenplay)
  • 1974: O Mal Amado (also editor and screenplay)
  • 1977: Argozelo
  • 1978: O Meu Nome É (also editor and screenplay)
  • 1980: Report on the events in Guinea (Orig .: Acto dos Feitos da Guiné, also script)
  • 1984: Guerra de Mirandum (also editor and screenplay)
  • 1987: Crime à Portuguesa (TV series)
  • 1988: Tempos Modernos (TV series)
  • 1988: Cinemagazine (TV series, also producer)
  • 1989: Le masque (TV series, episode Le congrès gastronomique )
  • 1995: Ao Sul (also screenplay)
  • 1997: Especial Cannes: 50 Anos de Festival (TV)
  • 1997: Notícias do Tempo (TV series, also producer)
  • 1998: Leitão de Barros - O Senhor Impaciente (also screenplay)
  • 1998: O Altifalante (TV film, also producer)
  • 1998: João Cutileiro - E Neste Nada Cabe Tudo (TV movie)
  • 1999: A Luz Submersa (also producer and screenplay)
  • 2000: Estrela do Guadiana
  • 2001: Insólitos (TV series)
  • 2002: O Rapaz do Trapézio Voador (also screenplay)
  • 2010: Não Há Rosa sem Espinhos (also editor and screenplay)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema portugués 1962 - 1988. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 1989, p. 362f ( ISBN 972-21-0446-2 )
  2. ↑ Alcides Murtinheira & Igor Metzeltin: History of Portuguese Cinema. 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 105 ( ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 )
  3. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema portugués 1989 - 2003. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, p. 572 ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
  4. ↑ www.cinema.sapo.pt ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cinema.sapo.pt
personal data
SURNAME Silva, Fernando Matos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matos Silva, Fernando Adalberto Vieira de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese director
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila Viçosa , Portugal