Maureen Fazendeiro
Directing
Biography
Maureen Fazendeiro was born in France in 1989. She works with film medium and is a member of L'abominable, an artist-run film laboratory based in Paris. Since 2016, she is working as a co-writer for Miguel Gomes’s upcoming film, Selvajaria, and has been preparing her first feature-length film, As Estações. She lives in Lisbon.
Known For
A journey through the real history and the tales of a region in southern Portugal and a portrait of the people who have lived there, weaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems, and songs.
The Seasons
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
Grand Tour
Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.
The Tsugua Diaries
A chronicle of a bloody war that pitted the inhabitants of the hamlet of Canudos, led by their prophet, against the army of the young Brazilian Republic in 1897.
Savagery
A town in the greater Parisian suburbs, its housing estates, its rose and vegetable greenhouses, its inhabitants. It is winter and a Roma camp has been set up. While most of the local residents are outraged and demand the expulsion of these new neighbors, a few women will try to help them live on the land they occupy.
Les Habitants
Underscored by French film legend Delphine Seyrig’s evocative recitation of a Henri Michaux poem, Maureen Fazendeiro’s film is a mysterious, multi-textured portrait of eclipse spectators in Portugal.
Black Sun
A portrait of Sonja, adventurer of the twentieth century, living on an island that she built by herself: Motu Maeva.