Regina Pessoa
Birth : 1969-12-16, Coimbra, Portugal
History
Regina Pessoa is a Portuguese animator and director who was born on the 16th of December, 1969. She was born in Coimbra, Portugal, but lived in a village near the city until she was seventeen years old. Without a TV, she spent her time reading, listening to the older ones telling stories and also painting her grandmother's house doors and walls using charcoal, encouraged by her uncle. She graduated in painting from University of Porto in 1998 and during her time as a student she took part in different animation workshops, having participated in Espace Projets (Annecy, 1995) with the short "A Noite", which she would finish in 1999. In 1992 she started working in Filmógrafo - Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, where she collaborated as animator in various films. Her short "Tragic Story with Happy Ending" is the most awarded Portuguese film ever. Her short animated film, "Kali, the Little Vampire" was awarded the Hiroshima prize at the 2012 Hiroshima international animation festival, the "1st Prize Animated Short Film – CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL 2013", "The Golden Gate Award for Best Animation Short - 56th SAN FRANCISCO INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2013", "40TH Annie Awards Nomination in the Best Animated Short Subject Category 2013", Nomination for the Cartoon d’Or 2013.
Art Direction
"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."
Screenplay
From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
(voice)
From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Animation
From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Writer
From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Director
From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
Writer
All the lives of Cora Coralina in a poetic narrative in the voices, feelings and interpretations of six generations of great Brazilian actresses. A polyphony of the voices that inhabited Cora, revealed in prose, verse and images with its immense literary talent and human content. The film reveals the trajectory of Cora Coralina, from her childhood years to getting married and leaving Goiás, from the long period of 45 years lived in different cities in the state of São Paulo and her return to the City of Goiás, when she revealed herself to Brazil with the strength of his poetry.
Thanks
Oil, gold and fire are the treasures inside the proud giant mountains. For the little mountain it's impossible to keep up with that. He's just in possession of this tiny, strange and useless SOME THING.
Writer
Director
Writer
This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.
Screenplay
This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.
Director
This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.
Writer
A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
Screenplay
A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
Director
A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
Director
The opening credits of the festival "Odyssey mas imagens" in Porto in 2001. (25 Sec. )
Screenplay
The opening credits of the festival "Odyssey mas imagens" in Porto in 2001. (25 Sec. )
Editor
It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
Animation
It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
Screenplay
It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
Director
It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.
X’mas wish-list that two brothers are writing is leading to them not wanting to share their desired toys once they get them for Christmas, so Santa Claus gives them one new toy, for both, for them two to share and play together with, so as to teach them a lesson in fellowship.
Screenplay
Christmas Song. (40 Seg. )
Director
Christmas Song. (40 Seg. )
Director
Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )
Screenplay
Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )
Animation
In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the Outlaws.
