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Born 1948 Ribeira Grande, Santo Antão, Cape Verde Occupation director, writer, plastic artist, professor People also search for Camacho Costa, Luísa Cruz, Sofia Centeno, Denise Vindevogel | ||
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Leão Lopes (born 1948 in Ribeira Grande, Santo Antão, Cape Verde) is a Cape Verdean director, writer, plastic aritst and professor.
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- S tom os ltimos contratados filme de le o lopes trailer
- Academic career
- Visual arts
- Feature film
- Documentaries
- Published works
- Collaborations
- References
As a filmmaker, he made the first ever feature of Cape Verdean fiction, The Island of Contenda (1996), based on a novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa. He is also author of various documentary including Bitú (2009) which was about the Mindelo native artist filmed in 2006, and São Tomé - Os Últimos Contratados (2010).
In 1979, he founded AtelierMar in Mindelo, a non-government organization, dedicated to formation of a cultural capacity and local development in which still presides.
He was Minister of Culture and Communications during the Carlos Veiga legislature between 1991 and 2000, he is currently deputy member at the Cape Verdean National Assembly and elected as MpD party.
He founded the University Institute of Arts, Technological and Culture (M_EIA) in Mindelo and is currently dean and professor.
Academic career
After finishing his secondary studies in Cape Verde, Leão Lopes headed to Lisbon and was graduated in painting at the Lisbon High School of Fine Arts (Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa). In France, he was a doctorate at University of Rennes II with a thesis about the Cape Verdean writer Baltasar Lopes.
Currently he is a rector at M_EIA with teaching in various disciplines, even post-graduation in film and audiovisual.
Visual arts
His visual aristry is an expression of Cape Verdean experiences, mainly in his native island. Leão Lopes even rejects the labels of different areas of the part. In an interview by the reviewer NosGenti: Never worn the clothing of a writer of a plastic artist. I approaches art, not as plural, but only and exclusively singular. The supports which largely allows to express, regardless of an area, are the ones who elect at the time..