A few months ago, I was contacted by a French journalist, from ARTE TV, to participate in a documentary about director Manoel de Oliveira and his relationship with Douro. As some of you may already know, a few years ago, I did a research project related...
In the transition between the forties and fifties of the twentieth century, over a period of inactivity as a film director, Manoel de Oliveira goes to the Douro Wine region. In this place, the director re-evaluates and thinks the cinema. During this period, Manoel de...
The legend says that the family "Famalião" began using a waypoint to explore the "fatigue of hikers resting in his tent." Over time, the tent was modernized and Famalicão became a transit point for hikers, to an important communications center between the main towns and...
It's interesting that the city of Manoel de Oliveira, was the city that saw the birth of cinema in Portugal. Porto was the birthplace of the Portuguese cinema, where the photographer Aurelio Paz dos Reis shows the first film projection in Portugal, on the night...