My village doesn't live here anymore

Catarina   Mourão | 2006

DVCAM | 58 min

screening format: DigitalBeta or DVCAM

shooting format: DVCAM

Financial Support: EDIA

"I was born beneath this water. I was 10 years old when it all happened. Some things I remember well others are blurred and confused..."

During   six years we followed the daily life of this village, condemned to disappear beneath the waters of the Alqueva dam. Once the water arrived we followed its inhabitants to the new village: a ghostly replica of the flooded one.  

Director: Catarina Mourão

Camera: Catarina Alves Costa; Catarina Mourão; Paulo Menezes

Sound: Armanda Carvalho; Catarina Mourão; Olivier Blanc

Editing: Pedro Duarte

Sound Post-Production: Tiago Matos

Production: Catarina Alves Costa

Production Company : Laranja Azul

screenings:

- Award JURY 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, Portugal, July 2006

. 10th Mostra Etnográfica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006.

. Beeld voor Beeld, Amsterdam and Antwerpia, Netherlands June 2007