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Interview de Pocas Pascoal sur "Alda et Maria"
Pocas Pascoal is an Angolan female film director.
Contents
- Interview de Pocas Pascoal sur Alda et Maria
- Early life and education
- Career
- Filmography
- Awards
- References
Early life and education
Maria Esperança, also known as "Buen" Pascoal, was born in 1963 in Luanda, Angola, where she grew up until the age of 16 before leaving the civil war to Lisbon, Portugal with her sister. Two years later, she returned to Angola and became the first camerawomen for television in Luanda. In France, Pascoal studied at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais (CLCF). She graduated in 2002 from film editing, and joined a group of artists known as Cité. In this group, Pascoal took part in several contemporary arts exhibitions. Currently Pascoal lives between Paris and Lison, where she is working on her next feature film that will tell the love story between a South African soldier and an Angolan.
Career
In 1998, she directed her first short fiction film in India "For us" and two documentaries: "Childhood Memories" (2000) and "There is always somebody who loves you" (2004). She also directed and the short film “Tomorrow will be different “(2008). In 2011 she directed her first feature film “Over here everything is fine”, which is a story based on her exile from Portugal. This film received the Best Film at the international Festival of Los Angeles. The film has also been produced under the name “Alda and Maria” which was released in January 2015. Her work has been featured in over 20 festivals worldwide since she began her career as a film maker.