António-Pedro Vasconcelos
António - Pedro Saraiva de Barros e Vasconcelos ( born March 10, 1939 in Leiria) is a Portuguese film director and producer.
Life
His school career he graduated in Coimbra, Lisbon and at the Jesuit boarding school in Santo Tirso. His 1957 begun studying law at the University of Lisbon, he broke off after three years in order to devote himself entirely to the film. From 1958 to 1960 he was already in the Board of Directors of the Film Club Cine Clube Universitário de Lisboa. At the invitation of José Ernesto de Sousa, he became a film critic (his first article from July 1959 treated Visconti's " White Nights " from 1957 ), and assisted him in the production of advertising films.
With a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Vasconcelos in 1961 went to Paris and studied film at Georges Sadoul at the Sorbonne. In 1963 he went to Italy to become an assistant with Rossellini. Back in Portugal, he again worked as a journalist (including for the Expresso ) and turned commercials. In 1967, he then turned his first film, a documentary.
1969 belonged Vasconcelos of the founders of the Centro Português de Cinema, which he headed in 1974 and 1975 and through which he made his first feature film: Perdido por Cem brought the everyday language of youth in the film, saying issues such as emigration and military service in the sign of Portuguese in colonial war. The story is similar to 1963, the groundbreaking Os Verdes Anos, told through a young man who comes to Lisbon, falls and fails at the uprooting.
Vasconcelos was from 1973 to 1974 chief editor of the film magazine Cinéfilo from 1978 to 1981, he worked as a lecturer in film editing at the film school of the National Conservatory. Between 1980 and 1981 he was the head of film production in the second television channel of the RTP.
Vasconcelos also wrote screenplays (eg for Matar Saudades by Fernando Lopes ) and worked with João Botelho at the film Conversa Acabada.
In 1979, Vasconcelos with Paulo Branco, the film production company VOFilmes, the movies, among other things for Manoel de Oliveira, Wim Wenders, Alain Tanner, João César Monteiro, Raul Ruiz and produced himself.
In the 1980s came under the filmmakers in Portugal amplifies a discussion about cinema as art or as entertainment. In addition to Luís Galvão Teles or directors like José Fonseca e Costa and Vasconcelos was for a cinema that recovers the general public to Portuguese film and not only turns to the filmmakers. So he left the symbolic and poetic film of the Portuguese language film of the time and was looking for more straightforward narrative forms, without making any concessions on the subject. His film " O Lugar do Morto " surprised as the Portuguese public, critics and audiences took him equally good, and the thriller in 1984 the most successful Portuguese film for 25 years.
With Jaime Vasconcelos 1999 turned another crowd-pulling movie in straight narrative style without compromising on the subject (child labor and social inequality ). The film came in 2001 as Ras de bol in the French cinema and received attention and goodwill of the criticism.
After also crowd-pulling Os Imortais Vasconcelos was his next two films Callgirl ( a corruption of history among local politicians ) and A Bela eo Paparazzo ( a romantic comedy that satirized thematizes the tabloids ) among the 10 most watched Portuguese films of the years 2004 to 2012 place. Contributed to the success, the cast starring in two films with Soraia Chaves, a famous ex-model.