Noémia Delgado

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Noémia Delgado (born June 7, 1933 in Vila João de Almeida , Huíla , Angola ; † March 2, 2016 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was a Portuguese film editor , film director and screenwriter . She was considered an important representative of Cinema Novo Português and the most important female voice in Portuguese film alongside Teresa Villaverde .

Life

Noémia Delgado was born in 1933 in the former Portuguese colony of Angola. She spent her childhood and youth in Mozambique and returned to Lisbon in 1955. There she attended the Escola Superior de Belas Artes and studied sculpture.

She initially worked as an assistant director at the side of well-known Portuguese directors such as Manoel de Oliveira and Paulo Rocha .

She was married to the surrealist and poet Alexandre O'Neill from 1957 to 1971 ; together they had a son, Alexandre Delgado O'Neill , a star photographer in Portugal (1959-1993). In 1963 she was imprisoned in a notorious state prison in Caxias for a month during the dictatorship of Antonio Salazar . In 1977 she co-directed the film Tore Bela with German director Thomas Harlan , which was also shown in Cannes . During her stay in Paris , she also worked with the documentary filmmaker Jean Rouch . She also made documentaries.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1966: Changing Lives (Mudar de Vida)
  • 1976: Mascaras (documentary)
  • 1980: O Visconde (TV movie)
  • 1981: Tiaga (TV movie)
  • 1983: O canto de Sereia (TV movie)
  • 1988: Quem foste, Alvarez? (Documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lusa: Morreu a realizadora Noémia Delgado Pioneira do Cinema Novo. In: dn.pt. Diário de Notícias, March 2, 2016, accessed March 6, 2016 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b Luís Miguel Queirós: Morreu Noémia Delgado, a cineasta de Máscaras. In: publico.pt. Público, March 2, 2016, accessed March 6, 2016 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Delgado, Noémia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delgado, Noemia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese film director, editor, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila João de Almeida , Huíla , Angola
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2016
Place of death Lisbon , Portugal