Ana Rocha Fernandes Explained

Ana Rocha Fernandes
Nationality:	Santiago, Cape Verde
Education:	studied architecture at the University of Siegen. Studied film at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
Awards:	Das Rauschen des Meeres.Best Short Film, Baden-Württembergischer Filmpreis [de] 2010[3].Jury Prize, Cape Verde Film Festival 2011[3].Rabelados – die gewaltlosen Rebellen der Kapverdischen InselnHonorable mention at the Locarno International Film Festival[3].Best Film / Press Prize, Festival Internacional de Cinema e Vídeo Ambiental [pt] (FICA), Brazil

Ana Rocha Fernandes is a Cape-Verdian film director, screenwriter and editor.^{[1] [2]}

Fernandes was born in Santiago, Cape Verde. She was a teacher in Cape Verde, and then moved to Germany to study architecture at the University of Siegen, before studying film at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg.^[3] She now lives in Stuttgart.

Selected filmography

• Das Rauschen des Meeres (The Sound of the Sea), 2010 short drama
• , 2013
• Rabelados - Die gewaltlosen Rebellen der kapverdischen Inseln (Rabelados - The Non-Violent Rebels of the Cape Verde Islands), 2000 documentary about the Rabelados^[4]

Awards

• Das Rauschen des Meeres

• Best Short Film, 2010

• Jury Prize, Cape Verde Film Festival 2011
• Rabelados – die gewaltlosen Rebellen der Kapverdischen Inseln

• Honorable mention at the Locarno International Film Festival

• Best Film / Press Prize, (FICA), Brazil

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ana Rocha Fernandes . Filmteam . Landliebe . 31 March 2019.
2. Web site: Ana Rocha Fernandes . filmportal.de . 31 March 2019.
3. Web site: Zu Gast am 18.12.13: Ana Rocha Fernandes: Über die Montage von Das kalte Eisen. . Montageforum . 31 March 2019.
4. Web site: Rabelados - Die gewaltlosen Rebellen der Kapverdischen Inseln . Filmladen . 1 April 2019 . 1 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190401074641/http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest_alt/alt/2002/deutsch/film/rabelados.html . dead .