Joaquim Sapinho

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Poster Corte de Cabelo (1995)

Joaquim Sapinho (* 1964 in Sabugal ) is a Portuguese film director and producer .

Career

At 16, Sapinho went alone to Lisbon, where he often attended the Cinemateca Portuguesa and subsequently studied film. Today he is a lecturer in directing at the Lisbon Theater and Film School, the ESTC ( Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema ), where he was once a student.

In order to be able to turn his desire to make films into reality, he founded the production company Rosa Filmes . His first film, Corte de Cabelo (“Haircut”), premiered at the 48th Locarno Film Festival . It became a hit with audiences (among the 25 most-viewed Portuguese films since 1974) and received a number of awards (in Geneva, Angers, Chicago, Spain and the USA).

Poster Mulher Polícia (2003)

His next feature film, A Mulher Polícia , won a number of international awards (Cuba, Spain and Italy) and received very good reviews, but failed to repeat the box office success. While his debut was still a fast-paced film with a mixture of humor, sex and thoughtfulness, his second film was serious and atmospheric.

His haunting documentary about Bosnia after the war, Diários da Bósnia (“Bosnian Diaries”), premiered at the Pusan ​​International Film Festival in South Korea, received positive reviews at home and abroad ( Público , Variety ) and was the first Portuguese documentary film to the nation's came into the rental and in the multiplex cinemas of Lusomundo was shown.

Poster Diários da Bósnia (2005)

His film Deste Lado da Ressurreição (“This Side of the Resurrection”) was shown at various festivals, such as the São Paulo International Film Festival or the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it premiered.

Filmography

  • 1995: Corte de Cabelo (haircut)
  • 1999: Glória (screenplay; director: Manuela Viegas )
  • 2003: A Mulher Polícia (The Police Woman)
  • 2005: Diários da Bósnia (Bosnian Diaries) documentary.
  • 2011: Deste Lado da Ressurreição ( This Side of the Resurrection)
  • 2019: Liberté

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rosafilmes.pt/ , under "Directors" or "Realizadores"
  2. ^ ESTC: Professores ( Memento of January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ http://www.obs.coe.int/oea_publ/eurocine/00001527.html ( Memento from July 26, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Corte de Cabelo de Joaquim Sapinho ( Memento from 1 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/festival-reports/57th_eiff/
  6. ↑ "Diários since Bósnia nas salas de cinema" ( Memento of 31 January 2009 at the Internet Archive ), July 13th of 2006.
  7. ↑ This Side of Resurrection ( Memento from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Deste Lado da Ressurreição (2011): Awards , IMDb.
personal data
SURNAME Sapinho, Joaquim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Sabugal