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Terra Incógnita

Beatriz Anjos

Summary
A photo album, with a seven engraved on its back, is forgotten in a drawer, already closed for a long time. Within you a family and several lives.
This drawer is opened and an attempt is made to question and understand these images stuck in the past and everything that remains in them. A journey through people and places never before forgotten begins.

Credits
Direction, Script and Editing – Beatriz Anjos
Production – Francisca Hespanhol
Sound – Beatriz Anjos, Francisca Hespanhol and Mariana Marques
Editing Assistant – Mariana Marques
Sound and Image Post-Production – Beatriz Anjos

Bio
Beatriz Anjos, from Torres Vedras, is 21 years old. She is currently studying Sound and Image at Escola Superior de Artes e Design, in Caldas da Rainha. Over the course of three years of her degree, she based her work on memory, the space that surrounds it, and the speculation that it can bring. The truth or a lie. Thus, through plastic and audiovisual means, it is possible to rethink and explore its materiality and ephemerality.

The Digger

Mateus Verde

Summary
The night is dark, a man walks through the woods carrying his hoe. Arriving at a, perhaps, previously designated spot, he wields the tool and digs diligently. The pit grows and deepens with each of the strikes. Once his labor is done, the digger enters the pit he has opened, crossing into an incomprehensible underground world. From the inscrutable emerges a bright glimmering light that overpowers the darkness, revealing, perhaps, a new portal.

Credits
Director: Mateus Verde
Actor: Rafael Fantasia

Bio
Mateus Verde is a portuguese Singer-Songwriter and visual/sound. His music ranges from intimate and dreamy folk ballads to heartfelt and haunting atmospheric soundscapes. The short film “The Digger” marks his directorial debut. In this movie he seeks to express the central concerns of his practice, common across the different media he engages with. At the heart of his work is a fascination with the elusive and cryptic mysteries of the natural world, which guide his exploration of the esoteric dimensions of nature and Being.

A Casa da Vitória

Carolina Santos and Ema Canelas

Summary
Vitória, as usual, dives into her fantasy world, taking us on an adventure inside her dollhouse. The extravagant, caricatured and affluent characters that inhabit it awaken Vitória’s desire to explore their differences, resulting in a conflict that is not up to the dolls to solve.

Credits
Cast
Sara Jerónimo – Vitória
Isabel Conde – Little Vitória
Cristiano Sousa – Dinis
Murilo Oliveira – Mateus
Cristiana Branquinho – Telma
Leonor Tavares – Leonor
Rui Viola – Baltazar

Technical crew:
Carolina Santos e Ema Canelas – Directors
Maria Conde – Production
Joana Rodrigues and Maria Ana Cardoso – Production Assistants
André Santos; Carolina Santos and Eduardo Salvador – Cameraman
Carolina Santos – Photography Direction
Ema Canelas – Composer
António Dias – Sound Direction
António Dias – Boom operator
Carolina Santos –Image Post-production
Ema Canelas – Sound Post-production
Inês Santos – Costume designer
Carolina Santos; Leonor Tavares and Inês Santos – Make-up
Carolina Santos and Inês Santos – Props

Bios
Ema, 22 years old, graduated in Sound and Image at ESAD.CR. She has always been interested in telling stories and exploring the various ways in which she can do so, from sound to image.
Carolina Duarte Santos was born on the 5th of May, 2003, in Portugal. Ever since she was a child, she had a big fascination with film and animation, and so she started drawing at a very young age. She’s currently finishing her Bachelor’s in Sound and Image, in ESAD.CR, and recently, as part of her bachelor’s, she was a co-creator of the short film “A Casa da Vitória”.