In this twentieth edition of the festival, among the 5 industry-oriented activities, two of them – the Portuguese Film Fund and the Lisbon Screenings – closed yesterday their activities in this edition, with the awards announcement to the winning films.
Since its launch in 2006, this is the first time that the Lisbon Screenings award a prize to one of its projects. Among the 16 films that were part of its programme this year, the award attributed by the Lisbon Screenings jury, formed by the programmer Rebecca de Pas, the film critic Martin Pawley and the programmer Shirley Chan, was for the documentary feature film Ospina Cali Colombia, by Jorge de Carvalho.
PORTUGAL FILM / LISBON SCREENINGS AWARD
Financial support of 1,500 €
“An hommage to an admired filmmaker who was able to create a political discourse intertwined to a personal way of thinking cinema.”
Ospina Cali Colombia
Jorge de Carvalho, Portugal, doc, 80′, 2023
Within the scope of the Portuguese Film Fund, ten projects were selected, being 6 short and 4 feature films, which were presented through a pitch evaluated afterwards by an international jury. This year, the jury consisted of the singer and composer Rita Braga, the co-director of the London Short Film Festival Philip Ilson, and Markus Duffner, from Locarno Pro, who awarded the following prizes:
LUSOPHONE UNIVERSITY OF HUMANITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Financial support in the amount of 1,500 € attributed to a project of any length and genre
Illicit Trade | The Living Coin
Pedro Paiva, Portugal, fic., 100′, 2024
DMIX – DIGITAL MIX MÚSICA E IMAGEM
Sound post-production services for two films (a short and a feature film)
Salerno-Goulette
Fábio Penela, Italy/Portugal, doc, 14′, 2023
Fado Bicha
Justine Lemahieu, Portugal, doc, 80′, 2024
FUNDAÇÃO GDA
6,000 € for the creation of original music, rewarding three short films (each one with 2,000 €)
Couto Mixto
Frederico Lobo, Portugal, doc, 30′, 2023
raw+porous | raw+porous
Ágata de Pinho, Portugal, fic., 23′, 2023
Happiness in a Pot
Clara Jost, Portugal, doc/fic/exp, 59′, 2024
THE YELLOW COLOR
Two studio days in image post-production for a short film
Prima ku Lebsi
Welket Bungué , Portugal, fic., 30′, 2024
SPECIAL MENTION PORTUGUESE FILM FUND
Hands – Power, Gesture and Touch
Rita Figueiredo, Portugal, doc, 90-100′, 2024
More information about the Lisbon Screenings here, and about the Portuguese Film Fund here. All the information about the industry is available at the Industry Booklet.
