José Nascimento
José Augusto Moreira do Nascimento ( born September 19, 1947 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese film director and editor.
Career
He finished high school in Oeiras, having worked as a teenager in the Rádio Clube Português ( Rádio Comercial today ). He worked among others since the early 1970s for the TV shows " Ensaio " and " Impacto " of the RTP. He was, inter alia, assistant António Pedro Vasconcelos in " Perdido por Cem " (1973 ) and Fernando Matos Silva at " O Mal Amado " (1972), later for Raúl Ruiz ( " O Território " 1981). After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, he was one of the founding members of the experimental film co-operative Cinequipa. He worked on it for the RTP, inter alia, in collaboration with writers such as Alexandre O'Neill or Álvaro Guerra e Alface. Here he turned now emancipatory programs such as " Nome: Mulher " ("Name: Women" ) or "Ver e Pensar " ( "Seeing and Thinking " ), 1981 also a documentary on the 50th anniversary Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. In the years 1974 to 1978, he had previously turned a number of committed documentaries about the social changes after the revolution, including for Cinequipa, which he left in 1976. For a number of films, among others, " O Bobo " by José Álvaro Morais and " Aqui na Terra " by João Botelho, he took over in the next few years the cut. He taught from 1981 to 1987 "cut" at the Lisbon Film School of the National Conservatory ( Escola Superior de Cinema do Conservatorio Nacional, today ESTC ). In the resolution phase of Cinema Novo Nascimento belonged to the faction that decided on an audience -oriented film.
In 1986 he directed his first feature film. " Repórter X" shows the life of Reinaldo Ferreira (1897 - 1935), a director and became known journalists of the 20s, some of the, then still turned unusual detective comedies, and his newspaper reports signed with X reporter. After several documentaries, and television magazine "TV Arte " around the visual arts, turned Nascimento only in 2000 his second full feature film. " Tarde Demais " based on a true story and tells the story of four men of a capsized fishing boat in the broad delta of the River Tagus. The atmospheric and psychologically intense film shows the struggle for survival of men against the freezing and drowning, with the unattainable Lisbon metropolis in mind. The film impressed audiences and critics alike, both by its suspenseful plot, as well as through the metaphor of a modern city that does not see a few feet in front of her nose human suffering.
For the week of European film in Covilhã ( Semana de Cinema Europeu da Covilhã ) and the European Film Festival in Angra do Heroismo he directed different short film workshops. For the film school of the University of Beira Interior ( Covilhã ), he heads today occasional seminars and workshops.
Nascimento also appeared as an actor, did not emphasize this side of the cinema for personally though, and was confined mostly to supporting roles. In his work as an actor, he has remained correspondingly inconspicuous.