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Leonor Noivo

We’re animals, we need retreats.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES OF THE MASTER IN ARTS OF SOUND AND IMAGE_ESAD. CR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OSSO CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
may 2nd to 6th, 2023
OSSO Facilities, in the village of S. Gregório, Caldas da Rainha

Based on the idea of a “new cycle”, we set out for an immersion in a universe far from our daily lives. We set out to dive temporarily into ourselves, into each one, into the place of suspension that we will create collectively in the OSSO space.
Exploring the idea of retreat, each one will elaborate, from their past baggage / experience and the experimentation with materials in these days (writing, research, references, moving image) and at the intersection with the physical mapping where one stands, a biographical narrative inserted in the space here circumscribed and around. A movement simultaneously facing the interior of each one and the exterior of what surrounds us, which will allow us during the days of the laboratory to create experimental objects, of short duration, which we will share at the end of the residence.

LEONOR NOIVO (1976) grew up in Macau, where she studied Photography and Music at the Macense School of Arts. She returned to Lisbon in the late 90s where he studied Architecture before joining the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC), specializing in Editing and Film Directing in 2004. Later she completed the Documentary Film Course of the Ateliers Varan-cinéma vérité, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She is the co-founder of the production company TERRATREME Filmes, a collective of filmmakers created in 2008, together with João Matos, Luísa Homem, Pedro Pinho, Susana Nobre and Tiago Hespanha, where she has developed, alongside her films, the work as producer in the coordination and monitoring of fiction and documentary projects.
She also worked as an annotator, screenwriter and assistant director, collaborating with several filmmakers such as João Pedro Rodrigues, João Salaviza, João Botelho, Filipa Reis and João Miller, Marília Rocha, Inês Oliveira, João Nicolau, João Vladimiro, among others.
Paralell to filmmaking, she collaborated with several artists in the areas of theater and performance, creating content and video installations.
Her filmography includes the first films “SALITRE” (winner of the Ourense festival in 2006) and “EXCURSION” (winner Portuguese at INDIELISBOA in 2007), and the short film “SETEMBRO” premiered in LOCARNO in 2016. Her most recent works fuse the fiction and documentary genres: “RAPOSA” premiered at FID MARSEILLE in 2019 (special mentions by the Marseille Esperance and Georges Beauregard Juries) and “MADRUGADA” premiered in Rotterdam in 2022, having subsequently received several awards and nominations, including the pre-application to the European Film Awards.
Leonor is currently finishing the production of a documentary in the Philippines and preparing a fiction feature film to be filmed in 2024 between Lisbon and São Paulo.