Joana Frazão
Birth : , Lisbon, Portugal
History
Joana Frazão (Lisbon, 1980) has a degree in Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon and a masters degree in English Studies in the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, where she currently attends the doctorate in Comparative Studies with a thesis on film and museum. She participated in the course of Ateliers Varan documentary of Gulbenkian, where she made ALL GIRLS ARE BAILARINAS, and worked as an assistant director on two documentaries by Jorge Silva Melo. Co-directed with Raquel Marques the documentaries THE HOUSE THAT I WANT and ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE. Together with Ana Eliseu directed the short-films CINEMA HISTORY and AMOR À VIDA. She is part of the Doc's Kingdom team - International Seminar on Documentary Film, where she's responsible for supporting texts and the site, with Ana Eliseu. She joined the United Artists reading committee and regularly works as a translator, especially for theatre.
Editor
From the bride's room to the dance floor, through the situations created by photographers, we follow three couples on their wedding day. People working in the industry invite us to imagine the choices that the preparation of this day implies, the course of marriage preparation leads us to project the future that starts now: a daily life together. When looking at it - we all know how’s a wedding - All the Days of Our Lives tries to think about the desires that guide our life choices, ideals of love, having a family, belonging to the community.
Director
From the bride's room to the dance floor, through the situations created by photographers, we follow three couples on their wedding day. People working in the industry invite us to imagine the choices that the preparation of this day implies, the course of marriage preparation leads us to project the future that starts now: a daily life together. When looking at it - we all know how’s a wedding - All the Days of Our Lives tries to think about the desires that guide our life choices, ideals of love, having a family, belonging to the community.
Director
Two girls at home on their living room sofa. They watch something on the TV screen: a man appears, he's looking up, there's a cigar in his mouth. He's wearing glasses, with smoked lenses, a visor on his head, a blue visor. White letters appear on the black background. He blinks. White letters appear, he looks down. He draws smoke, takes a drag. Pulls the cigar out of his mouth. Smoke comes out. He keeps looking up.
Director
A locked up house where one can play, windows opened, the stone house, a wedding dress, the plants no-one takes care of for months, goats, pigs and horses, rainy days and the pool left unused, the husband who went clandestinely to France, the tree-house to be built, round gates they didn’t let us do, upward mattresses to protect against the dampness, the house build for some 30 years and the unfinished house, the house of our dreams. It’s summertime, the month of August, in Vascões, North of Portugal. Many of the houses of emigrants, empty during the rest of the year, are once more inhabited. We visit six of them, guided by the stories of those who built them.
Assistant Director
Documentary about the work of the painter António Sena and a way to see the transformation of forms over time
Assistant Director
When he was 16-years-old, a young man was so impressed by the paintings of an obscure painter, that he did his best to get acquainted with him, as an artist, and a painter. Eventually, the artist started writing, and impressing the cultural world of his country to the point he became an established artistic name, and a college teacher. So, too, did that young man grow to be a theater and film writer, producer, and director.
Assistant Director
A documentary about the actress Glicínia Quartin on her 80th birthday. Her family, the anarcho-syndicalism, readings at his parents' house, prisons, experimental theaters, surrealists, the encounter with José Ernesto de Sousa on the unfolding of Cinema Novo with “Dom Roberto”, Italy, fantasy, Beckett, Genet, Vitor Garcia, the encounter with Luís Miguel Cintra - a life in motion.
Sound
Maria Helena, 57 years old, lives in the small village of Lourel, on the outskirts of Lisbon. Her days are divided by the several chores imposed by household keeping: floor-washing, bathroom cleaning, doing the laundry. This is the story of a housewife who wished to fly faraway but didn’t, perhaps, as she puts it, because she was born “before time”. She goes through the daily routine with all she has left: memories and songs from another time, from a revolution (April, 1974), that fill in the soundtrack of her world and of her days.
