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HUMANS - VARIATIONS OF LIFE
SYNOPSIS
One day, a forgotten box of shoes is discovered in a shelf of the record company. Inside this box, there were tapes containing home made recordings of the famous Portuguese composer - António Variações. When one listens to these tapes, where Variações sings in the most pure ways - without any musical background, many times whispering to the recording not to wake up the neighbours – one perceives that this treasure could not remain hidden.
The HUMANOS project was born… a “super”-band, composed by “super”-musicians, where the famous Portuguese singers Manuela Azevedo, David Fonseca and Camané give their voice to music and lyrics from António Variações.
This film is about the process of preparation of the live concerts in the summer of 2005 and about the approach that these musicians had to the legacy left by António Variações.
Director: António Ferreira Editing: Sandra Castiço Producer: Zed Filmes - Curtas e Longas
Documentary - 33 min -
was born in Coimbra in 1970. He started working as a computer programmer while dedicating his spare time to photography, a profession that he would later abandon when leaving for Paris in 1991. In 1994 he started studying at the Lisbon Film University (ESTC). In 1996 he entered the Berlin Film Academy (dffb) where he studied for another two years. In 2000, António Ferreira went to Cannes Film Festival with the short film "Breathing (under water)" and won several prizes in international festivals. One year later he shot his first feature film "Forget everything I've told you" which became one of the most seen films in Portugal that
year. Recently António Ferreira shoot the short film “It Wasn’t God’s Will” which will be premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival 2007.
He currently lives and works in Coimbra - Portugal, where he runs his production company ZED FILMES, producing fiction and documentary films for several directors.
Filmography
DEUS NÃO QUIS (IT WASN’T GOD’S WILL)
15 min, 35mm, Portugal 2007
HUMANOS – A VIDA EM VARIAÇÕES (HUMANS – VARIATIONS OF LIFE)
34 min, dv, documentary, Portugal 2006
ESQUECE TUDO O QUE TE DISSE (Forget Everything That I’ve Told You)
108 min, 35mm, Portugal/France 2002
Figueira da Foz - Cinema no Forte - Ago08 -Portugal
[9] Imagens sobre Música - Fonoteca de Lisboa – 21.11.2006 Fnac Coimbra – 10.12.2006 Ateneu de Coimbra – 12.12.2006 Mostra de Cinema e Videos Lusófonos - Moita – 02.2007
