Luísa Homem
Retratos: Portugal e os Portugueses vistos pelos Imigrantes (Portraits: Portugal and the Portuguese seen by the Immigrants), 2007, by Luísa Homem
Portugal, 29’. Production: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Film commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for the opening of the debate “Portugal and the Portuguese seen by the Immigrants”, which took place in January 2007, at the Gulbenkian Immigration Forum. The film brings together testimonies of people from different origins that talk about Immigration. Since then, it has been exhibited in different meetings and events, such as the film exhibitions Entre Mundos (organized by Maria do Carmo Piçarra/ACIDI, at the Cinema S. Jorge, Lisbon, 30/05/2008) and From & About: contemporary films on Immigration in Portugal (curator – Lúcia Marques, European Parliament, Brussels, at the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, 04.07.2007), as well as the participation in the program Nós (Us) (ACIME-RTP2, 10/06/2007) and the Festival Arte Mais– Arte com valor acrescentado (Art with added value), organized by the Association Mais Cidadania, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 31/01/2007).
LUISA HOMEM was born in Lisbon (Portugal), in 1978. She graduated in Communication (Cinema) from the New University of Lisbon. As a student, she collaborated with the Cinema Creation Laboratory, where she created the installation Obsessões a Vulso and two documentaries for the Fine Arts Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on artists’ exhibitions – Painting without a title (António Sena) and Short Story (Daniel Blaufuks). She attended the Documentaries course at the Varan Ateliers, within the Creativity and Artistic Creation Program, promoted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where she directed the documentary Cartas de Cabo Ruivo (Letters from Cabo Ruivo). In 2006, she creates the production company Patê Films, with Pedro Pinho and Maria Mire. In 2007, she participated in the production, camera shooting and editing of Bab Sebta, directed by Pedro Pinho and Frederico Lobo and in the editing of various films:
Retrato de Inverno de Uma Paisagem Ardida (Winter Portrait of a Burned Landscape), by Inês Sapeta, Estado de Excepção (State of Exception), by Ricardo Seiça, with the collaboration of Tiago Hespanha, and O Presente que Vem de Longe (The Present that Comes from Far), by Tiago Hespanha. Currently she is producing Nomadlab, a project of cinema ateliers that is to take place in Mauritania, Cape Verde and Angola and involved with the pre-production of As Cidades e as Trocas (The Cities and the Exchanges), a documentary based on Italo Calvino’s book Cidades Invisíveis (Invisible Cities).