“Contado por Mulheres” (“Told by Women”), an initiative led by the Portuguese public broadcaster RTP and the Lisbon-based manufacturing firm Ukbar Filmes, featured 10 primetime motion pictures advised by feminine first-time filmmakers in its first season. For its second version, it’s increasing to twenty initiatives. “20 women first-time directors/20 TV movies for primetime/20 stories told by women,” highlighted a abstract of the second version of the initiative proven throughout a Wednesday breakfast occasion on the Conecta Fiction & Entertainment trade gathering in Cuenca, Spain.
Ukbar’s Pandora da Cunha Telles (Once Upon a Time in Gaza), creator of the initiative, and José Fragoso, director of applications at RTP, offered their plans for the second season throughout the occasion, with the latter emphasizing the objective of “nurturing the next generation of Portuguese filmmakers.”
With a concentrate on sustainability and a collective group expertise, all movies will probably be shot back-to-back in blocks of 5 in small cities in Portugal, with every venture getting two weeks, beginning in the autumn. The director chooses the cinematographer and choose different roles, however most crew will probably be shared throughout all movies. The tales will probably be written by screenwriters and be “stories of today arising around Portugal,” stated Cunha Telles.
The movies don’t must characteristic feminine protagonists or inform female-centric tales. “The idea is to focus on any stories told by female directors,” she stated. The 20 tales have one factor in widespread, in keeping with her: “At the end of the tunnel, there is hope.”
Among the tales she talked about are one about “a professor sleeping in his van,” one other about an individual “awakening from a coma after the transition to the digital world,” and one about fishermen dropping their boats and beginning to write philosophical papers.
A key pillar of the initiative is one-on-one mentorship by “international mentors, including Gudny Hummelvoll (Norway), Mariela Besuievsky (Spain), and Francesco Virga (Italy),” the businesses stated. The Portuguese system of money rebates can even be tapped.
Each film will probably be 45-52 minutes in size and canopy such genres as comedies and thrillers. “It can’t be confused with a first feature, which is not the idea,” Cunha Telles defined in regards to the size of the initiatives. “But it is a passport” to probably transfer on to different work.
In reality, 4 filmmakers from the primary season return for the second outing, and several other others have moved on to different directing work, exhibiting the success of the initiative, she stated. The different administrators of the second spherical embrace actresses, a theater director, and an editor, amongst others.
The most recognizable identify on the record is actress Lúcia Moniz, who is thought to a golbal viewers for enjoying a Portuguese maid in Love, Actually.
Several tales have worldwide components, similar to one about unlawful immigration, that means “there is a possibility for co-productions in several of these TV movies,” Cunha Telles shared at Conecta.
Other potential worldwide strikes are already on her thoughts. In the following step, she stated her plan is to both convey the franchise to different nations the place feminine filmmakers aren’t very current but, similar to Greece, or open the initiative as much as characteristic a movie every from varied European nations.
Here is the complete record of the feminine administrators for the second version of “Told by Women”: Lúcia Moniz, Ana Cunha, Cristina Carvalhal, Joana Areal, Rita Pestana, Margarida Vila-Nova, Joana Machado Madeira,
Margarida Leitão, Rita Barbosa, Joana Botelho, Maria João Bastos, Fabiana Tavares, Mónica Santos, Joana Barbosa, Laura Andrade, Cláudia Alves, Filipa Ruiz, Sandra Faleiro, Carolina Rosendo, and Francisca Alarcão.
