By Library Fundación Rei Afonso Henriques
On Sunday, the 15th, has closed the INDIE LISBOA, which began on 5 May. What is INDIE LISBOA? It is the largest Independent Film Festival in Portugal.
In these eight years, this independent film festival has managed to forge a niche in the international festivalero very tight schedule. The recipe is the same as applies in other places, such as Gijón or Rotterdam: escape from the red carpet and apply a rigorous selection of titles, new formal proposals and focusing on the younger artists and / or more risky.
This festival highlights the quality and variety of documentaries that are presented in. I have spoken often of the Film but also wanted to highlight the strength of the documentary. When sometimes in our profession is said "I am Documentalist studied Documentation" people really believe that you actually do the documentary, I hope! So travel to different places ...
But in the end the documentary is another means of information, a documentary by Wikipedia is "the representation of reality as seen by some audiovisual. The organization and structure of images, sounds (text and interviews) as the author's point of view determines the type of documentary. The timing of the materials, treatment of the narrator, the nature of the material, completely real, recreation, youth club, etc., give rise to a wide variety of formats so today, ranging from pure documentary to creative documentaries, through models reports varied, reaching docudrama (format in which real characters will play themselves), reaching the fake documentary sometimes known as mockumentary. . "
Documentary Sometimes that is related perhaps to a public intellectual with a profile like a taste of the genre away from the common spectator. Much less so. There is a great deal in this genre that can really meet the expectations of everyone. In the Library, I have to say, we have always been very fond of documentaries, and so can be found from those who speak of the Portuguese Language (Língua , we project publicly for two years), historical documentaries, like other literary.
IndieLisboa This year has presented a new tape of Sergio Tréfaut, Viagem a Portugal (not to be confused with Saramago's book) his first feature film with Maria de Medeiros . Tréfaut Sergio is a producer and director, led the International Documentary Festival DocLisboa, was for several years president of Apordoc (Associação Portuguesa de Documentaries) and was also in the direction of EDN - European Documentary Network.
His documentaries have been exhibited in more than 30 countries and have received numerous international awards, highlighting Country Outro (1999), Fleurette (2002), Lisboetas (2005) and A Cidade dos Mortos (2009). Lisboetas was the first documentary to be Portuguese in three months in the commercial circuit and holds the record for cinema viewers.
At the time we call Sergio Tréfaut to see the possibility of projecting Lisboetas the Foundation and manage the rights of Design, to our surprise gift to us two copies of Lisboetas we have in the library at no cost and other reasons but not project we could do it anytime.
So from here today to thank for this gesture and invite you to discover the documentary.