Countries once forced together by colonialism and the slave trade, now find connections in cultural entrepreneurship and the Portuguese language. Small independent film-makers have a role in promoting African and Brazilian culture for their contemporary value, not as tourist clichés. Graham Douglas Mario Patrocinio and his brother Pedro’s […]
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Owen Gower: Still the enemy within
The Scottish producer talks about his latest film. His first documentary film as a director is on the miners’ strikes that ravaged the country 30 years ago. Fernando Marín Gascón “We knew people who had lived through the strikes themselves, with experiences that had to be told” is […]
Diego Quemada-Díez: “The happy end is a manipulation”
The journey of three teenagers riding “the Beast”, the train that leads to the desired future in the United States, is full of risks and is destroying innocence, hope and grand dreams, metre by metre. Noelia Ceballos Terrén From his first steps behind a camera 20 years later […]
Marc Silver tells the horror of immigrants risking their lives
He directed “Who Is Dayani Cristal?”, a documentary which recently premiered in the UK and recounts the dangers faced by immigrants travelling from Mexico to the United States through the so-called “death row”. Juanjo Andrés Cuervo Thousands of people die on the journey, even before they reach the […]
Mario Patrocinio and kuduro rhythm: dancing after the war
Kuduro is a much more energetic dance and music form than the better-known Kizomba. It is part of the renewal process in Angolan society since the civil war, in which young people are expressing themselves and embracing the future. Graham Douglas Mario Patrocinio’s first film was Complexo Alemao: […]
















