Pedro Costa (director)

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Pedro Costa (born March 3, 1959 (according to other information: December 30, 1958 ) in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese film director .

Life

Costa graduated from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC) and subsequently assisted various directors, including in 1985 João Botelho in Um Adeus Português , and Joaquim Leitão in Duma vez por todas (Once and for all). In 1989 he made his first feature film, O Sangue (The Blood). The black-and-white film is a stirring work about the separation of two brothers after their father's disappearance and already shows the upcoming basic theme of Costas' work, which deals with people on the margins of society.

In 1994 Costa filmed for Casa de Lava (House made of Lava) on the Cape Verdean volcanic island of Fogo . The film tells the story of an illegal immigrant who had an accident as a construction worker in Lisbon and was brought to his Cape Verdean homeland by a Portuguese nurse (played by Inês de Medeiros ). The work has won several awards (including the Thessaloniki International Film Festival , Entrevues Film Festival). While filming, Costa learned some Cape Verdean Creole and got closer to the people of Fogo. As a farewell, they gave him parcels to hand over to relatives in Lisbon. During his corresponding visits, he was impressed by the human panorama of the unofficial Lisbon immigrant district of Fontaínhas ( Amadora district ), which is mostly known in the Portuguese media as a problem area .

Costa shot his next three films there, also known as the Fontaínhas trilogy, Ossos (Bones, 1997), No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda's Room, 2000) and Juventude em Marcha (Youth Ahead, 2005). In Vanda's room in particular , which he shot mostly by himself with a handheld video camera, won a number of prizes, including a. a FIPRESCI award and various awards at the film festivals in Locarno and Cannes . The third part, Youth Ahead , about the district after its illegal buildings were demolished, also won over the critics (award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association , nomination for the Golden Palm ).

In 2001 he made two versions, one of them together with Jeanne Lapoirie , a documentary about Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub ( Où gît votre sourire enfoui? ) For the TV channel ARTE . Similar to Straub, Costa represents raw, unadorned, realistic cinema. Costa prefers to work without a written script that has been distributed to everyone involved.

At the Locarno International Film Festival in 2014 he was awarded the prize for best director for his film Cavalo Dinheiro ( Horse Money ). The film celebrated its German premiere at the Munich Film Festival in June 2015, where it received the ARRI / Osram Award , the prize for the best international film.

In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

In 2019 Costa won the Golden Leopard of the Locarno Film Festival for his film Vitalina Varela . Critics described the photograph of the milieu study, which follows a Cape Verdean woman of the same name in the slums of Lisbon , as "magical".

Pedro Costa also wrote the scripts for all of his films, and also directed the camera on In Vanda's Room .

Filmography

  • 1984: É Tudo Invenção Nossa
  • 1989: The Blood ( O Sangue )
  • 1994: Casa de Lava
  • 1997: Skin and Bones ( Ossos )
  • 2000: In Vanda's Room ( No Quarto da Vanda )
  • 2001: 6 Bagatelas (Video)
  • 2001: Cinéma, de notre temps (TV episode, Danièle Huillet / Jean-Marie Straub)
  • 2001: Où gît votre sourire enfoui?
  • 2005: Ne change rien
  • 2005: Youth Ahead! ( Juventude Em Marcha )
  • 2007: O Estado do Mundo (contribution from Tarrafal )
  • 2007: Memories (Contributed by The Rabbit Hunters )
  • 2009: Ne change rien
  • 2010: O nosso Homem
  • 2014: L'Amour sauvage (as a performer)
  • 2014: Horse Money
  • 2019: Vitalina Varela

literature

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140893905
  2. ^ Pedro Costas website , accessed June 19, 2017
  3. ↑ Malte Hagener, Tina Kaiser (ed.): Pedro Costa (= Film Concepts Vol. 41). edition text + kritik, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86916-478-6 , p. 106.
  4. ↑ VIENNALE Vienna International Film Festival. Vienna 2006, p. 72 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Tina Porcelli (Ed.): 58. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica. Editrice Il Castoro, Milano 2001, ISBN 88-8033-213-9 , p. 1996 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Pedro Costa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  7. ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema . Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, p. 134 f.
  8. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182276/awards
  9. ^ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema . Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, p. 135.
  10. ↑ Zeit Online, August 16, 2014 http://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2014-08/filmfestival-locarno-preis
  11. ↑ https://www.filmfest-muenchen.de/de/festival/preise-preistraeger/arri-preis
  12. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
  13. ↑ Feature film from the slum wins Golden Leopard . In: faz.net, August 17, 2019 (accessed August 17, 2019).
  14. ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 . Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-211763-7 , p. 171.
  15. ↑ http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/cteq/o-sangue/
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon