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Portuguese Animation Leading Lights José Miguel Ribeiro, Nuno Beato, David Doutel & Vasco Sá Unveil Projects at Annecy (EXCLUSIVE)
Also to be pitched: New shorts from ‘A Mind Sang’s’ Vier Nev, Natália Azevedo Andrade, João Carrilho and Patrícia Figueiredo.
They will be joined by newer talents – Vier Nev, behind “A Mind Sang” – João Carrilho, Patrícia Figueiredo and Natália Azevedo Andrade – who together deliver an eloquent snapshot of the burgeoning state of Portuguese animation. To be presented at Annecy’s 2024 MIFA Feature Films pitches, Beato’s “Speransa” takes place on a large canvas, weighing in as the story of a plucky nine-year-old girl from a “tabanka” village in sixteenth century Western Africa in what is now Guinea-Bissau, just after an enormous fort was opened in nearby Cacheu in order to facilitate the slave trade practiced by the Portuguese crown. A TV special written by Nuno Soler, adapting illustrator Estrela Lourenço’s book, “Dark Woods.” “Her visual style, characterized by her soft color palette and rounded lines, brings a child-like nostalgia which we wanted to convey in our film,” says production coordinator Sara Antonio.
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