Licínio Azevedo Explained

Licínio Azevedo
Birth Date:1951 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Porto Alegre, Brazil
Occupation:Film director, film producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist
Language:Portuguese
Notable Works:movies Desobediência (Disobedience, 2003), Virgem Margarida (Virgin Margarida, 2012), and Comboio de Sal e Açúcar (The Train of Salt and Sugar, 2016).

Licínio Silveira Azevedo (Licínio de Azevedo, Licínio Azevedo, Novo Hamburgo, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1951) is a Brazilian–Mozambican journalist, film producer, screenwriter, and film director of award-winning documentaries and feature films.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Biography

Born in Porto Alegre in 1951, journalist Azevedo left Brazil during the military dictatorship there for post-revolutionary Portugal in 1976, continuing to Guinea-Bissau where he trained journalists. He interviewed members of the liberation movement PAIGC on their struggle against Portugal and published the results with Da Paz Rodrigues in their book Diário da libertação : a Guiné-Bissau da nova África (Liberation diary: the Guinea-Bissau of the new Africa, 1977). Living in Mozambique since the 1970s, he reported on Frelimo's struggle in Relatos do povo armado (Stories from the armed people, 1983).[5]

At the Maputo Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique (INC, National Cinema Institute of Mozambique, now Instituto Nacional de Audiovisual e Cinema de Moçambique INAC), Azevedo worked with film directors Ruy Guerra (born in Maputo, 1931) and Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022). Azevedo became one of the founders of the Mozambican film production company Ébano Multimédia, and director and producer of various feature films and documentaries. His first medium-length fiction film The Great Bazaar (O Grande Bazar) and other films were presented at many film festivals, such as the Fribourg International Film Festival. His documentaries and drama feature films obtained seven prizes and three award nominations at film festivals.

Books by Avezedo

Avezedo published a number of books in Portuguese, such as:[6]

Filmography

Azevedo's films include:[7] [8] [9]

Year Film Genre Role Duration (min)
1985 War drama feature Co-writer 95 m
1988 A Colheita Do Diabo (The Devil's Harvest) Feature Director with Brigitte Bagnol 54 m
1990 Marracuene (location)
(Two Banks of a Mozambican River)[11] 		Documentary Director 43 m
1992 Adeus RDA (Farewell GDR)[12] Docufiction Director 26 m
1994 A Árvore dos Antepassados
(The Tree of Ancestors) 		Drama feature Director 50 m
1996 The Water War (A Guerra da Água) Documentary Director, co-writer 73 m
1997 Tchuma Tchato Documentary Director 56 m
1998 Massassane (Afela Kwatine)Documentary Director 46 m
1999 A Última Prostituta[13] (The Last Prostitute) Drama fiction Director 48 m
2000 Histórias Comunitárias[14] (Community Stories) Documentary series Director and screenwriter
with Orlando Mesquita 		6 x 26 m
2001 A Ponte (The Bridge)Documentary Director 52 m
2002 Eclipse Short drama documentary Producer 25 m
2003 Disobedience (Desobediência) Drama feature Director, screenwriter 92 m
2003 Mãos de Barro (Hands of Clay) Documentary Screenwriter 50 m
2005 The Demining Camp
(Acampamento de Desminagem) 		Documentary Director, screenwriter, coproducer 60 m
2006 The Great Bazaar (O Grande Bazar) Drama feature Director, screenwriter 56 m
2007 Night Lodgers (Hóspedes da Noite)[15] Documentary Director, screenwriter, producer 52 or 53 m
2010 A Ilha dos Espíritos
(L'Île des Esprits / Island of the Spirits) 		Documentary Director, screenwriter 90 m
2011 Crônicas de Moçambique
by Margarida Cardoso[16]
(Licinio de Azevedo, chroniques du Mozambique) 		Documentary portrait Interviewee 88 m
2012 Virgin Margarida (Virgem Margarida) Drama feature Director, co-writer 90 m
2016 The Train of Salt and Sugar
(Comboio de Sal e Açúcar,
Le Train de Sel et de Sucre)[17] 		Drama feature Director, screenwriter, producer 93 m
2021 Nhinguitimo (Vent du Sud) Short, drama Director 23 m

Awards

Azevedo's films obtained seven prizes and three nominations, including:

Film Festival Award
Desobediência
(Disobedience, 2003) 		2003 Silver FIPA Fiction
Acampamento de Desminagem
(The Demining Camp) 		CinePort[18] 2005 Andorinha Digital Award Best Documentary
Hóspedes da Noite
(Night Lodgers, 2007) 		Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming 2008 Golden FIPA Reports and Social Issues
Virgem Margarida
(Virgin Margarida, 2012) 		2012 Audience Award Best Film,
2012 SIGNIS Award – Special Mention
Comboio de Sal e Açúcar
(The Train of Salt and Sugar, 2016) 		2016 Silver Pyramid Best Director
Comboio de Sal e Açúcar 2017 Tanit d'or Narrative Feature Film

Secondary literature

External links

Videos

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Entrevista. Licínio Azevedo, um gaúcho filmando na África . Carlos . Caramez . Roger . Lerina . 26 November 2022 . 15 September 2023 . Portuguese . matinaljornalismo.com.br . Matinal Jornalismo, Porto Alegre.
  2. Web site: Licínio Azevedo, Réalisateur/trice, Écrivain/ne, Producteur/trice, Scénariste . Barlet . Olivier . 2017 . africine.org . Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) . Né au Brésil le 27 mai 1951, Licínio Azevedo fait ses premiers pas en Afrique en suivant les guerres de libération, d'abord en Guinée, puis au Mozambique, où il s'établit en 1975. . fr.
  3. Web site: Licínio de Azevedo. O pai do cinema moçambicano. Entrevista con Licínio de Azevedo, director de 'Virgem Margarida', publicada en Jornal de Letras, el 9 de diciembre de 2013 . Licínio de Azevedo. The father of Mozambican cinema. Interview with Licínio de Azevedo, director of 'Virgem Margarida', published in Jornal de Letras, on December 9, 2013 . Hapern . Manuel . 11 January 2019 . ibermediadigital.com . Ibermedia Digital . 15 September 2023 . Portuguese.
  4. Web site: Infopédia Dicionários Porto Editora . Licínio Azevedo – Infopédia . 2022-05-17 . Infopédia – Porto Editora . pt.
  5. Book: Stock, Robert . Contemporary Lusophone African Film : transnational communities and alternative modernities . Paulo . De Medeiros . Livia . Apa . 6. Postcolonial testimony and the ruins of empire . London and New York . Routledge Taylor & Francis Group . 95–112 . 2021 . 9780367134976 . 1176322750.
  6. Web site: Showing 1–10 of 24 Results . worldcat.org . OCLC.INC . 15 September 2023 . . WorldCat.org, search for Licínio Azevedo.
  7. Web site: Licinio Azevedo Director Screenwriter . 2022-05-17 . mubi.com . MUBI UK Limited . London, UK . We don’t work with professional actors, but with normal people..
  8. Web site: Director Licínio Azevedo Mozambique 10 Films in collection . trigon-film.org . trigon-film is a Swiss film foundation . 15 September 2023 . Licínio Azevedo is at the same time a director and a writer. .
  9. Web site: Licínio Azevedo Director . africanfilmny.org . 17 September 2023 . African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) . New York . Biography. Brazil. Licínio Azevedo (born in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is an independent filmmaker and co-founder of the Mozambican film production company, Ebano Multimedia..
  10. Film adaptation of the book Book: Azevedo, Licínio . 1983 . Relatos do povo armado . Maputo . Cadernos Tempo . Colecção Depoimentos, 1 . 10799692.
  11. Web site: Marracuene: Two Banks of a Mozambican River (1991) Directed by Licinio Azevedo. 28 September 2023 . allmovie.com . AllMovie, Netaktion LLC .
  12. Web site: Adeus RDA . 28 September 2023 . site.videobrasil.org.br . Traumatic process of eleven thousand Mozambicans returning home after one decade in the East Germany..
  13. Web site: Acervo África, Sumaré São Paulo, Brazil . A ÚLTIMA PROSTITUTA . 28 November 2021 . Cinco mulheres falam da sua experiência nos centros de reeducação para prostitutas, criado logo após a independência de Moçambique, nas florestas da longínqua província de Niassa, em sítios onde não havia nada, excepto animais selvagens. (Translation: Five women talk about their experience in the re-education centers for prostitutes, created shortly after Mozambique's independence, in the forests of the distant province of Niassa, in places with only wild animals.).
  14. Web site: Histórias Comunitárias . 2019–2023 . netkanema.co.mz . NetKanema, Maocha's Filmes . 15 September 2023 . Portuguese.
  15. Web site: Titulo Original: Hóspedes da Noite, Moçambique, 2007, cor 53'. Documentário Africano . marfilmes.com . Pt . Na era colonial, o Grande Hotel da cidade da Beira era o maior de Moçambique: 350 quartos, suites luxuosas, piscina olímpica… (Translation: In the colonial era, the Grande Hotel in the city of Beira was the largest in Mozambique: 350 rooms, luxurious suites, an Olympic-size swimming pool.) . 15 September 2023 . Marfilmes, an international sales agency in Lisbon, specialized in the dissemination of films and documentaries from Portugal and Africa, focusing on Lusophone Africa..
  16. Web site: Licinio de Azevedo – Chroniques du Mozambique (Licinio de Azevedo – Crônicas de Moçambique) . 2020 . africine.org . Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) . 15 September 2023 .
  17. Film adaptation of Book: Azevedo, Licínio . 1997 . O comboio de sal e açúcar . Maputo . Ndjira . 40783711.
  18. Former Lusophone film festival called Festival de Cinema de Países de Língua Portuguesa, pt.

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