Luís Miguel Correia
Birth : , Santa Iria de Azóia, Portugal
History
Born in Santa Iria de Azóia, in the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal (November 1977). Completed a degree in Communication Sciences/Film at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH/NOVA). Has directed two documentaries about Portuguese artists, produced by FCSH/NOVA’s Laboratory of Cinematographic Creation (LABCC) and funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Fernando Calhau – Work in Progress (2001) and Out of the Nature of Things (2003), about the sculptor Carlos Nogueira. Attended the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme’s Filmmaking Course and Cinema Scriptwriting Course, both organized in association with The London Film School. Directed the short fiction film The Finger (2005) as part of the former, followed by the short fiction film Season (2007), produced by Raiva and financed by the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual – ICA and by Radio and Television of Portugal – RTP. Has directed a documentary about another Portuguese artist, Pedro Calapez – Works of the Gaze (2009), for Midas Filmes. More recently, has directed Parisian Chronicle (2012), produced by Terratreme and financed by ICA/RTP, based on an episode in the life of the Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça. Has produced a video installation entitled Football Playground (2004), shown at the photographic exhibition «A City of Football», organized by the Photographic Archive of Lisbon during Euro 2004 and financed by the Lisbon City Council. Has also worked as director of photography, editor and assistant director in other films, collaborating with Manuel Mozos, Pedro Caldas, Susana Nobre and João Rosas, among others. Collaborates with FCSH/NOVA since 2008, as LABCC’s technical coordinator and as technical assistant to the UT Austin|Portugal Programme’s PhD in Digital Media. Is currently completing the documentary project Santa Iria, which is in post-production.
Editor
This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence of the modern age on family relationships and science. Her passionate life is examined in detail in an inexhaustible series of stunning archival photos and home videos recorded by Daveau, and in voice-over she speaks openly, extensively and full of wonder about life and the world around her.
Editor
It's a summer weekend in a country house near Sintra, in Portugal. Fourteen-year-old Nicolau is spending a couple of days with his older brother Simão and his friends, all of them in their late twenties. Everyone is drawn to the beautiful and quiet Maria do Mar, but Nicolau will see his life the most deeply shaken by her. Between homework and tree-climbing, stories about a deceased philandering grandfather and the origins of the tortellini's shape, a friend in a costume nursing a broken heart and seduction games, Nicolau observes this group of young adults.
Additional Photography
New Opportunities were a portuguese education program with a focus on the academic certification of adults who left school early. Applicants will improve their academic degree from the re-elaboration and re-interpretation of his "life experience." These processes motivated workers to reflect on their working conditions, their training, their roots, producing a plurality of views about the school, emigration, the rural world and the universe of employment. Having its protagonists stories as a starting point, the film approches into a reflection about work in the contemporay world. This film was produced over four years work by the film director in a New Opportunities Centre.
Assistant Director
Mariana is an 11 years old girl coming from Serpa who just moved to Lisbon with her father. The first days are spent in the city cleaning the house and knowing the new neighborhood, Entrecampos. After the first day of school, Mariana gets lost coming home and has to call her father for help. The next day, she becomes friends with a boy in her class, Nicholau, and his older brother, Simão. The two brothers invite Mariana for lunch and help her to get home.
Writer
Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this cosmopolitan environment, on the verge of rupture. A happy coincidence brings him into the presence of the man he considers his master, the intransigent Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. For Lopes-Graça, the occasion presents itself as a unique opportunity to show Bartók his scores...
Director
Paris, March 1939. While the march of the Nazi troops makes itself heard throughout Europe, exiled artists and intellectuals from all over the world still converge in the French capital. Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça is among them, sharing this cosmopolitan environment, on the verge of rupture. A happy coincidence brings him into the presence of the man he considers his master, the intransigent Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. For Lopes-Graça, the occasion presents itself as a unique opportunity to show Bartók his scores...
Editor
A nurse takes care of a patient in her house. Maria do Céu has been a nurse for more than forty years, working at an old Hospital in Lisbon. She was sixteen, when she arrived to Lisbon, coming from a small village in Alentejo. At the Hospital, she reads the file of an old patient who was also her friend. The file is then closed. Maria do Céu returns to her village, where she sings at the people’s house choir.
Director
An expedition through the painter's work, following his work at his studio and observing some of his recent exhibitions as well as several other works for public display.
Director of Photography
Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living proof of time, natural elements, and human predators themselves.
Editor
Summer late afternoon in a Lisbon suburb. The concerns and expectations of a group of friends as they shift to a new stage of their lives.
Director
Summer late afternoon in a Lisbon suburb. The concerns and expectations of a group of friends as they shift to a new stage of their lives.
Editor
They thought life would be simple. All material problems would be overcome. Every morning it would be good to have breakfast together, the table laid. It would be the beginning of a long day at work. The daily ritual of a house inhabited by a mother and the two-year-old daughter. The automatism of the gestures of material life and its suspension in small events.
Sound
Documentary on the work of artist Carlos Nogueira by following up-close a series of his exhibitions. The movie follows the essential phases of the exhibitions' preparations: the concept, the definition and transformation os the materials and the installment os the sculptures.
Editor
Documentary on the work of artist Carlos Nogueira by following up-close a series of his exhibitions. The movie follows the essential phases of the exhibitions' preparations: the concept, the definition and transformation os the materials and the installment os the sculptures.
Director
Documentary on the work of artist Carlos Nogueira by following up-close a series of his exhibitions. The movie follows the essential phases of the exhibitions' preparations: the concept, the definition and transformation os the materials and the installment os the sculptures.
Director of Photography
Documentary on the work of artist Carlos Nogueira by following up-close a series of his exhibitions. The movie follows the essential phases of the exhibitions' preparations: the concept, the definition and transformation os the materials and the installment os the sculptures.
