Lourdes Picareta

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Lourdes Picareta (* 1958 in Santa Iria ) is a Portuguese filmmaker and screenwriter. She makes reports and documentaries and works in particular for SWR television , among others. a. for the series Countries - People - Adventure .

Life

Picareta was born in the small farm workers' village of Santa Iria near Serpa in the Alentejo and went to primary school there. She went to secondary school in Almada , where she graduated from high school.

Her parents had meanwhile gone to Germany, where she also went in 1976 to study German, history and comparative literature at the University of Mainz and Munich ( German studies degree 1982).

Since 1982 she has been working for the public broadcasters, first for ZDF , then for ARD , Arte , WDR and especially SWR , occasionally also for Portuguese and French channels.

In 1994 she received the Journalist Prize from the Portuguese Journalists Club and in 1995 the Canadian Ekotopfilm Prize. She was nominated for the 2013 Grimme Prize for her film "Made Poverty", about the increase in poverty believed to be overcome in Western Europe . Also for the Franco-German Journalism Award .

In 2015 she produced her autobiographical film “Meine Heimat Alentejo” for the countries - people - adventure theme week "HEIMAT".

Lourdes Picareta is married to a Greek, the couple has two sons and lives in Germany. In addition to Portuguese and German, she also speaks fluent French and Spanish, as well as English and some Greek.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1988: Child labor in Portugal
  • 1992: The exchange
  • 1995: 100 acres of paradise - Brazil's landless defend themselves
  • 1998: Healing Takes Love (via Georgos Vithoulkas )
  • 2000: Greek shipowners - The end of a monopoly
  • 2001: Islands: Föhr
  • 2006: Vaqueiros - cowboys in the Brazilian thorn steppe
  • 2006: The Radio Family (nominated for the German Camera and Editing Award 2007)
  • 2008: Ersin in Wonderland - The Two Faces of Holland
  • 2009: Sold for a plate of rice - child trafficking in Cambodia
  • 2011: The Arab Revolution - a year later
  • 2012: Made poverty (nominated for the Grimme Prize 2013)
  • 2012: the year of spring
  • 2013: The Maya Route - Mexico, Guatemala, Belize (countries, people, adventure trilogy)
  • 2015: My home Alentejo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autobiographical information in her film Meine Heimat Alentejo (2017) ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at minute 1:22, ARD media library, accessed on April 15, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Biographical information on Picareta's personal website , accessed April 15, 2017
  3. ↑ Grimme Prize 2013, nomination of Made Poverty on the Grimme Prize website, accessed on April 15, 2017
  4. ↑ Information on the home page of their personal website , accessed April 15, 2017
  5. ↑ Lourdes Picaretas Film My Home Alentejo ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , link to the ARD media library valid until May 21, 2017, accessed on April 15, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
personal data
SURNAME Picareta, Lourdes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Portuguese film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Iria (Serpa) , Portugal