Synopsis
In order to complete her thesis on Real in Cinema, Maria do Mar shoots the old manors of Douro and Minho, in the north of Portugal. The last one she visits it's a more isolated house, hidden between vineyards. She is enchanted by everything that seems genuine and, in her opinion, true. Until one day. Her touching candor leads her blindly to the depths of horror. A house that fits all of Henry James' evil novel.
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Maria Margarida Gil Lopes was born in Covilhã on September 7, 1950. A Portuguese filmmaker with a degree in Germanic Philology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Lisbon, her career spans more than thirty years, with titles such as “Relação Fiel e Verdadeira” (1987), which was present at the Venice International Film Festival or “Rosa Negra” (1992) which was part of the selection of the Locarno International Film Festival. She was married to João César Monteiro, and also worked closely with him as an actress, screenwriter and assistant director. Over the years, her films have been premiered and awarded at the most prestigious film festivals, such as: Venice, Locarno, Rome, Mostra de São Paulo, New York, Seville, Doclisboa, IndieLisboa, Fantasporto, Figueira da Foz, Santa Maria da Feira, among others.
In 2005, Margarida was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Roma International Film Festival and was appointed as President of the APR (Portuguese Association of Directors) between 2009 to 2016. Her latest project, “Hands in the Fire”, which is loosely based on Henry Jame’s novel “The Turn of the Screw” was nominated for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, in the Encounters Competition Section
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
2024 - MÃOS NO FOGO / HANDS IN THE FIRE
Production: Ar de Filmes
2019 - MAR / SEA
Festival IndieLisboa 19 – Competição Nacional
Production: Ar de Filmes
2011 – PAIXÃO
(Longa-metragem)
Produção: CLAP Filmes
2009 – PERDIDA MENTE
Best Fiction Script for a foreign film - New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, EUA (with Abel Ferrara as the head of the festival)
2005 - ADRIANA
World Premiere - Rome International Film Festival
Best Portuguese Film - Indie Lisboa festival
1999 - O ANJO DA GUARDA
First prize - Rome International Film Festival 1999
1992 - ROSA NEGRA
Locarno Film Festival’s Official Competition
1987 - RELAÇÃO FIEL E VERDADEIRA
Venice Film Festival 1987
COLLABORATION WITH JOÃO CÉSAR MONTEIRO
2003 – VAI E VEM (actress)
1986 - Á FLOR DO MAR (production)
1982 - SILVESTRE (production)
1979 - O AMOR DAS TRÊS ROMÃS (actress and first assistant director) )
1978 - VEREDAS (actress and first assistant director)
1975 - QUE FAREI EU COM ESTA ESPADA (actress and first assistant director)
1972 - FRAGMENTOS DE UM FILME ESMOLA: A SAGRADA FAMÍLIA (assistant director)
PRIZES AND ACCOLADES
2022 Monograph by Ana Isabel Soares about my body of work, entitled “Margarida Gil, 40 years of Audiovisual”, which was also translated in English and included in the book “Women’s Cinema In Contemporary Portugal”.
2021 Netflix prize / Portuguese Cinema Academy 21 - Women in the Portuguese Cinema panorama.
2005 Career prize, Rome Film Festival
He studied production management at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He has worked in film production management and executive production with leading names in the Portuguese and European film industry: João César Monteiro, Manuel de Oliveira, Paulo Rocha and Werner Schroeter. He was a programmer at the Portuguese Cinematheque - Museum of Cinema with João Bénard da Costa. In 2001, he set up AR DE FILMES, a production company that promotes film and theatre projects. The company includes Companhia Teatro do Bairro and a 120-seater venue in Bairro Alto with a theatre, music and dance programme. It has produced over 40 plays in recent years. In the last 15 years, he has made over 17 films with João Botelho ranging from documentaries and feature films.
He has also done important work in film distribution by creating a new circuit system to ensure that audiences get to see the films by projecting them in large municipal theatres. O FILME DO DESASSOSSEGO, which is based on a work by Fernando Pessoa, is one of the most viewed films in Portugal in the last 10 years with an average of over 200 spectators per session. OS MAIAS adapted from Eça de Queiroz made over 150.000 spectators in the first realease in Portugal.
In 2015, Alexandre Oliveira was distinguished by the Academy of Cultural Producers with the Natércia Campos Prize for Best Cultural Producer by the Academy of Cultural Producers, for his “ability to place himself at the service of a significant diversity of creators, languages, artistic areas and promoters, etc. , to put oneself at the service of the clear defense of the artistic project in its relationship with the public.”
In recent years, he has extended his work with several Portuguese cinema directors, both in the area of fiction and documentary, such as Jorge Cramez, André Marques, Pedro Ramalhete, Inês Oliveira, Luciana Fina or Ariel de Bigault. Highlighting his work with filmmaker Margarida Gil, one of the most important women in Portuguese cinema.
His films are regularly present at important film festivals and have won a series of national and international awards.
Cast
MARIA DO MAR
Carolina Campanela
LOU
Rita Durão
CÉU
Adelaide Teixeira
LEONARDO
Marcello Urgeghe
in the picture
MOTHER . Sandra Santos | FATHER . Graciano Dias | DOG . Lúcia Lima
animals
TURKEY . Artur Agostinho | CAT . Olaf
band
SINGER / GUITAR PLAYER . Bruno "Meco" Rino
SINGER . Vanessa "Rouge" Fernandes
BASS PLAYER . Bruno "Peles" Palma
DRUMMER . Mi "Nasa" Silva
GUITAR PLAYER (RIP - 2020) . Paulo "Xoto" Barros
Extras from Ponte de Lima
GNR: António Domingos Morais, Janaina de Oliveira, Diamantino Franco; FIREMAN: Rui Corvos de Puga, Rui Pedro de Sousa, Sofia Costa Lima, Tânia Sousa; BARMAN: Philipe Franco BAR ETERNIDADE: Adriana Fernandes, Ana Oliveira, Beatriz Domingues, Bruna Araújo, Carlota Caçador, Carolina Silva, Celeste Baptista, Elias Sousa, Francisco Sousa, Inês Peres, Jéssica Fernandes, João Correia, João Pedro Viana, Luís Ribeiro, Luísa Jorge, Márcia Alves, Maria Miguel Serra, Marta Ribeiro, Mónica Peixoto, Ricardo Miranda, Rita Lima, Sara Ribeiro, Susana Luciano, Valter Santos; CASAL DE TURISTAS: Luís Magina, Mariana Magalhães; GROCERY STORE CLIENTS: José Amorim Folha, Manuel Cerqueira, Maria Conceição Pinheiro, Maria de Fátima Serafim, Mateus Caldas, Tomás Araújo Lima; VILLAGE INHABITANTS: Abel Lopes, Arlindo Sargento, Domingos Gonçalves, Domingos Barbosa Gonçalves, Fernanda Pereira Matos, Fernando Paulino Leite, Hermínio Manuel Magalhães, Joana Araújo, João Lopes, João da Sá Lopes, José da Costa de Lima, Lourenço Almada, Manuel Pereira, Maria Adelaide Lima Ribeiro, Maria Guilhermina Meireles Maria Isabel Silva, Maria Luísa Vieira, Marta Medeiros, Martinho Santos de Sousa, Nuno Esteves, Pedro Simões, Pedro Paulo Simões, Rosa Araújo, Rui Miguel Frazão, Sara Queijo, Sofia Banks, Stefan Baptista, Tânia Cristina Dantas, Tiago Amorim, Vasco Araújo
CREW
Paulo Belém
First Assistant Director
Maria Miguel
Second Assistant Director
Jorge Cramez
Continuity
Pedro Ramalhete
Pre Production Assistant . Casting
Luísa Jorge
Pre Production Assistant . Local Casting Assistant
Acácio de Almeida
Director of Photography
José Pedroso
Focus Puller
Luís Duarte
Second Assistant Camera
Miguel Robalo
Super 8 Operator
António Jorge Silva Still Photographer
Ricardo Ganhão
Sound Director
João Luís Almeida
Sound Assistant
Paulo Abelho
Guilherme Alves
Music Recording (Concert)
Luís Apura
Key Gaffer
Theo Ferreira
Gaffer
Pedro Santos
Gaffer
Rui Seabra
Light Design (Concert)
André Alves
Grip
Francisco Saraiva
Grip
Carlos Subtil
Decorator
Paulo Machado
Assistant Decorator
Francisco Briz
Set Dresser
Dino Alves
Costume Design
Inês Peres
Costume Supervisor
Blue (Nuno Esteves)
Make Up / Hair
Madalena Morais
Culinary Coordinator
Pedro Bento
Production Manager
Luís Magina
Unit Manager
Mariana Magalhães
Daniela Cardoso
Marta Medeiros
Production Assistants
Tiago Amorim
Barbara Jorge Machado
Production Assistants (reinforcements)
Ana Bordalo
Production Administrator
Sílvia Guerra
Accountant
Bernardo Miranda
Ivan Coletti
Ar de Filmes Office
Maria João Moura
Press
André Martins
André Falcão
Production Transports
João Braz
Editing
Jorge Carvalho
Visual SFX
Jennifer Mendes
Colorist
Paulo Abelho
Joana Niza Braga (CAS)
Sound Editing / Sound Mixing
MUSIC
Music Composed by Daniel Bernardes Daniel Bernardes ©
Schubert... Reminiscência I
Lição da Flora
Lição Manelinho
Schubert... Reminiscência II
Piano Pela Casa
Sua Doida
Do Hediondo
Schubert... Reminiscência III
MUSIC IN CONCERT
performed by Renegados do Ritmo
PASSARINHOS A BAILAR EM MARROCOS (MEDLEY)
Renegados do Ritmo
O Anzol
Flak e Pedro Malaquias
PRE-RECORDED MUSIC
Don Giovanni. Opera in 2 Acts, K. 527
music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
libretto de Lorenzo da Ponte
Act 1. La ci darem la mano (Sc. IX)
Václav Zítek
Prague National Theatre Chorus
Prague Chamber Orchestra
maestro Libor Pešek
℗ 1982 SUPRAPHON a.s.
TECNEMPRESA
Chartered Accountant Company
Maria Céu Ferreira Godinho
Chartered Accountant
Gina Romão
Insurancess
Francisco de Sousa - Turkey
Filipe Carvalho - Horse
Animal Trainer
PERIS COSTUMES
Wardrobe
CASA DO OUTEIRO
João Abreu Lima
Ana Abreu Lima
Sofia Abreu Lima
PAÇO DO CARDIDO
Dr Miguel Portela Morais
Ricardo Rodrigues
Fátima Rodrigues
MERCEARIA CENTRAL
Clementina Carneiro Sá
Manuel Cerqueira
César Matos
REPARADORA ARLINDO SARGENTO
Arlindo Sargento
CAFÉ CENTRAL
Domingos Morais
decors
Casa de São Sebastião
Paulo Santos
Mafalda Santos
Adelino Martins
Goret
João Martins
Luís Asseiceira
Manuel Martins
Maria do Céu
Pedro Santos
catering
Drivalia
SYNOPIXEL
Car renting
Clube Limiano de Automóveis Clássicos
João Araújo
Abílio sá Lima
Vehicles
Álvaro Sousa
Security
CARLOS SILVA
Production Support
SHOWREEL
Technical Materials
Jorge Nobre
Talkies
Armazém do Bairro
Sound Studio
Ar de Filmes
Editing Studio
Loudness Films
Color, Mixing e and SFX Studio
ACCOMODATIONS
Turihab
Maria do Céu Sá Lima
PAÇO DE CALHEIROS
Engº Francisco Silva de Calheiros e Menezes (Conde de Calheiros)
Encosta do Monte
Casa de Pomarchão
Quinta do Rei
InLima
CASA DO ARQUINHO
CRUZEIRO DO OUTEIRO
CASA DO OLIVAL
FERNANDES GUEST HOUSE
HOTEL AXIS PONTE DE LIMA GOLF RESORT
Acknowledgments
Câmara Municipal de Ponte de Lima: Presidente Eng.º Vasco Ferraz, Vice-Presidente Dr. Paulo Sousa, Maria José Abreu, António Ferraz, Eva Barbosa, João Miguel, José Caseiro, Fábio Caseiro . Junta Freguesia de Arcozelo: Acácio Fernandes, Susana Luciano . Junta Freguesia de Bertiandos Isabel Vilaverde Amf PetroLima Marcelino Martins Amigos dos 8mm Ana Matos ANIM: Teresa Parreira . Associação Cultural “Unhas do Diabo” . Ass. Humanitária Bombeiros Voluntários Ponte Lima . AutoLuz: Alberto Silva, Baltazar Guerra de Lima . Casa China . Centro Equestre Vale do Lima: Filipe Pimenta, Filipe Carvalho . Clube Limiano de Automóveis Clássicos: Paulino Leite . Confraria de Viana do Castelo: Francisco Tobias . DécorLima . Dupla Face - Companhia das Artes . Epralima: Pedro Ligeiro . Florista da Matriz: Maria Manuela Carvalhosa . GACEL: Domingos Morais . GNR - Divisão de Comunicação e Relações Públicas: Mafalda Gomes de Almeida, Martins Alves . Mcs Informática: Nuno Machado . Mrolo . Museu do Brinquedo: Luísa Jorge . PSP Ponte de Lima: Dario Ribeiro . Reboques Adriano Ribeiro . Restaurante Pombinha: Alfredo Alves . Sagrada Película: Nuno Leitão . Showreel: Vera Maurício . Solar da Picota: Sílvia Coria . Tasca das Fodinhas: Márcia Correia . Taxis Vitor . Ti Álvaro . Trajarte: Maria de Fátima Serafim, Cristina Mota, Daniel Tavares, David Nunes . DJ Celsus . Eloisa Ejarque . Fátima Ribeiro . Francisco de Sousa . Guga e Leica . Helena Melo . Joana Bravo . Joana Laranjinha . João Araújo . João Breuer . João Breuer Jr. . Jorge Lima . Manuel Saraiva . Manuela Vieira . Marie Carré . Micélio Amorim . Pedro Baptista . Rita Lima . Rosinha . Sofia Duarte
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