The ICA supports new films by Vasconcelos and Pêra
by Vitor Pinto
- New projects by António-Pedro Vasconcelos and Edgar Pêra will receive €600,000 each from Portugal’s film body, the ICA
Directors António-Pedro Vasconcelos and Edgar Pêra will receive €600,000 each from Portugal’s national film body, the ICA, to produce their upcoming film projects, Morrer por Amor [+see also:
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Vasconcelos – whose latest film, Os gatos não têm vertigens [+see also:
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Pêra’s Caminhos magnéticos (lit. “Magnetic Paths”), produced by Rodrigo Areias’ Bando à Parte, is based on two short stories by Branquinho da Fonseca – an author Pêra had already adapted in his 2011 film O Barão. The movie, billed as a “post-apocalyptic story”, will not be shot until 2016. Until then, Pêra still has to wrap the edit of a “burlesque, trans-realistic” feature entitled Adeus Carne.
Outside of the sphere of ICA support, there was also a third project announced last week: a film based on the life of late Portuguese poet Al Berto, to be directed by Vicente Alves do Ó (Florbela [+see also:
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