Catarina Mourão

Accademic background

2006 – Cinema Scriptwriting course run by the “Gulbenkian Foundation creativity and artistic creation programme” coordinated by Margaret Glover – London Film School.
2002 - MA dissertation in Film with Commendation, “I spy with my little eye something beginning with W….In search of Women in Portuguese Fascist archive footage of the 30’s and 40’s” supervised by Dr.Jacqueline Mainegard at the Department of Film and Television, University of Bristol.
1993-1995 - Postgraduate Diploma in Film and Television : Film & TV department, University of Bristol, UK The final project consisted of editing a fiction film sponsored by Fuji, for which she won an editing prize.
1987-1992 - BA in Law

In 2000 together with Catarina Alves Costa, they start up the production company Laranja Azul where they work as Producer/Directors of Creative Documentaries.

2000 - Member of the jury for the XI International Documentary Film Festival of Malaposta in Lisbon.
2001 - Eurodoc Program for documentary producers
2007 – Member of the jury in the creative Documentary section for the XX FIPA Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels.

Filmography

1994 Mecca Before I die 5 min, Betacam SP. Prod. by The Bristol University Film & TV Department.
About old women obsessed with Bingo.

1996 The port, 10 min, Dvcam - a film made for an exhibition about the Port of Lisbon

1997 -Fora de Água 48 min, Betacam Sp. Produced by Laranja Azul, Lda
A documentary about the conflict between the population of a village in Alentejo and the public art of two artists. The film was selected for the Biannual of Young Mediterranean artists in 1998.

1998 - A Dama de Chandor (The Lady of Chandor) 68 min Betacam Sp. Prod by SP Filmes, A documentary about an old woman who lives alone in a palace in Goa, and who struggles to preserve it as a symbol of a past she has lost with Goa’s independence from Portuguese colonial power.
The film was broadcasted by RTP (Portuguese Public Television) and was selected for the International Film Festival of Cape Verde (June 1999), The International Film Festival of Bahia, Brazil (September, 1999), International Documentary Film Festival of Malaposta, Portugal, (November 1998) the International Ethnographic Film Festival of Belgrade (October 1999), the Torino Film Festival (December 1999) and the Gottingen International Ethnographic Film festival (May 2000), Festival of Women Creators of the two seas (Greece, September 2000); Festival of Ethnographic Film, London (December 2000).Festival du Nouveau Cinema et des Nouveaux Medias, Montréal, October 2002.
The film A Dama de Chandor won the Award for Best Documentary in the IX International Documentary Film Festival of Malaposta, Lisbon, November 1998 , the Best Script Award at the VIIIth International Ethnographic Film Festival of Belgrade, September 1999 and the prize for Cinema Revelation by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Prémio Aurélio da Paz dos Reis.

2002 - “Next Stop” 15 min, DVCAM The daily life of a bus and its passengers through Porto during its major changes.

2002- 2004 - “Restless” 75 min, Digital Beta and 35 mm ICAM, Porto 2001, RTP
A triptych of life in the city of Porto. This film will take us on a journey through the "house-moving process" following three different characters at different steps of this process. Each story will be interwoven in a kind of chain, allowing at each moment a different point of view in a totally different background.
Best Photography and Best Production Award at the Festival DOC Lisboa, June 2002
DOC’s Kingdom International Seminar, Serpa, October 2002
Selected for the Rassegna Internazionale de Cinema Documental, Premio Bizzari,July 2002; Les Ecrans Documentaires, Paris, October 2002, Cineport Festival, Brasil June 2005. Festiberico, Delft 2006.
Theatrical Release in 35 mm in two cinemas in Lisbon and Porto, May 2004.

2004 – “ Malmequer, Bem-me quer” (“Love me, love me not”) , 60 min DigitalBeta ARTE France, Agat Films, Filmes do Tejo.
DOC Lisboa, June 2004

2006 – “A minha aldeia já não mora aqui” (“My village doesn’t live here anymore”), 58 min DigitalBeta
- Award JÚRY FICC (International Federation of CineClubs) in the Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português, April 2007
- Doc’s Kingdom Intenational Documentary Seminar, Portugal, June 2005 (work-in-progress)
- International Short Film Festival of Vila do Conde, July 2006; Beeld vor Beeld Film Festival - Amsterdam June 2007; Planet on Focus, Toronto Canada, October 2007.

2006 – “À Flor da Pele” (“On Edge”), 64 min DigitalBeta, ICAM, RTP, Culturporto; CNC; Procirep Angoa
Film Screenings:
- NAFA film Festival Copenhagen, May 2005 (work-in-progress)
- Tartu World Film Festival, Estonia March 2006
- Indie Lisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon April 2006
- Gottingen International Film Festival, May 2006
- 1er rencontres internationales cinéma et sport de Montréal, June 2006
- VI Festival of Visual Culture, Viscult Joensuu, Finland
- 3rd Moscow Int.Visual Anthropology Festival “Mediating Camera”.

Tuition:

2003 - …. Teaches Film Language, Film Production, Documentary Production and Editing at ESAD, School of Arts and Design, Caldas de Rainha
2005 Tutor at EDN Documentary Workshop in Lisbon, Portugal.
2005 Supervises with Catarina Alves Costa a post-graduation on Directing Documentary at Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon.
2002 Tutor at EDN Documentary Workshop in Barcelona, Spain
2002 Tutor at a seminar supervised by Margarida Medeiros “Leituras do corpo na Fotografia e no Cinema” – ISPA, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada.
2001 Tutor at EDN Documentary Workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece
1999 Teaches Film Language (Universidade de Aveiro, Department of Communication and Art)
1999 Teaches History of Documentary (Universidade Lusófona), Lisbon
1996-1999 Teaches Documentary at “Aula do Risco” school of Art in Lisbon
1996 Teaches editing at EPI (Escola Profissional de Imagem), Lisbon

Producer

Teatro em Festa (Theatre celebration) , 40 min, Betacam Sp by Catarina Alves Costa
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of Cabo Verde.
Mais Alma (More Soul),
52 min, Betacam Digital by Catarina Alves Costa
With the support of the Instituto Português de Artes e do Espéctáculo, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and ICAM (Portuguese Film Institute) Selected for the Gottingen Ethnographic Film Festival, March 2002
The Arrchitect and the Old City, 52 min, Betacam Digital, by Catarina Alves Costa a co-production with Jour J Productions, ICAM, RTP, RAI SAT, Voisénart, CNC, Media Distribution.
Between Walls, 75 min, Digital Betacam, by João Ribeiro and José Filipe Costa – Selected for the Festival Cinéma du Réel, March 2003
Inverted Landscapes, DVCAM, 48 min, by Daniel Blaufuks, selected for the XXI World Congress of Architecture, Berlin, 2002.
Gosto de ti como és (I love you as you are),56 min, Betacam SpBy Silvia Firmino.With the support of Egeac, CML.Best Portuguese Documentary at DOCLisboa 2005


1995-1999
Works as an editor, researcher and assistant director in many documentaries in Portugal, France (Les Films du Village, Arte) and United Kingdom (MTV, BBC2 and Carlton Television).
1999 – Editor of the documentary Espelho de Africa directed by Miguel Vale de Almeida (45 min. Beta sp).