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Square Eyes Picks Up Sales Rights for Maureen Fazendeiro’s Locarno Competition Entry ‘The Seasons’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Square Eyes picks up sales rights for Miguel Gomes's longtime collaborator Maureen Fazendeiro's 'The Seasons' ahead of Locarno competition premiere.
Vienna-based sales company Square Eyes picked up rights for Maureen Fazendeiro ’s solo directorial feature debut “The Seasons” ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, where it will compete for the coveted Golden Leopard. In her director’s statement, Fazendeiro, who co-directed “The Tsugua Diaries” with Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes, says the film “excavates the landscape, the voices and gestures of the people of Alentejo to uncover the vestiges of a shared history, one of wars and revolutions, fear and resistance, permanence and metamorphosis.” Speaking with Variety, Fazendeiro says it’s been 10 years this August since she read an article in a newspaper about the life and work of archaelogists Georg and Vera Leisner, who spent decades studying fourth and third millennia BC megalithic sites in Iberia, settling in Portugal during WWII.
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