Sério Fernandes
Directing
Biography
Sério Fernandes (Porto, 1946). He was an advertising director for Portuguese agencies and for Agence Havas. In 1974, he founded the production company Beifilme in Porto, where he produced and directed dozens of short, medium-length and feature films, including: “Coéforas”, “4'27‘’ do Mar de Francelos”, “A Entrada de Cristo no Porto”, “Nascimento do Sol Negro”, “Cisnes Negros”, “Viagem no Douro”, “Chico Fininho”, “Odisseu”, “Porto State of Art”. In 2003/04, he directed the feature films “Porto Porto” and “Quando eu Morrer vestir-se de Andorinha e voltar sempre na Primavera”. He was a teacher at ESAP between 1991 and 2015, teaching film directing. With his students, he shot dozens of films in Porto, from Minho to the Algarve, and in cities such as Paris, Barcelona and Brussels; in Africa, he shot the films “Morrer Sim Mas Devagar”, in Alcácer Quibir/Morocco, “Lava Crioula” on Fogo Island/Cape Verde and “Ecticoga” in Orango-Bijagós/Guinea Bissau. With former students, he has also filmed in Brazil, the Sertão and Amazonia, Macau and the Azores. The making of these films is based on the Quadro Artístico Cinematográfico, the absolute matrix unit of the aesthetically named Escola do Porto.
Known For
An act of passion, filmed in a church turned into a bar, on Easter 2003, and starring as many actors as the days of the year… Taking the sacred painting as a reference, the film questions the human condition: letting oneself die like Christ or betray scientifically like Peter?
A Imitação
Porto (Portugal), beginning of the 80s. A film crew seeks to understand if there's really the figure of Chico Fininho, immortalized in the popular song of the same name. A bunch of people are interviewed taking us to Boavista - where we find him in a club. After a brief hesitation, the interview happens and we're taken to everyday situations, that can happen to any "freak" of the city...
O Chico Fininho
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I Regata dos Barcos Rabelos
A short film directed by Tiago Afonso dedicated to Punkito, a key figure in Porto's punk scene.
Punk´s Not Dread
Forty years ago, Sério Fernandes was a television advertising director and owner of one of the most successful advertising companies in Portugal. That's when he decides to leave everything to focus on his own movies. Nowadays, Sério Fernandes is known as the master of Oporto’s school.
Sério Fernandes - The Master of Oporto’s School
Sitting in front of his farmhouse in Mirás, Sério reflects on a life linked to cinema. An exercise in synthesis and memory.
Curtas
A very unique and personal vision of this emblematic square in the city of Porto. A film of night shadows; a window on the invisible...
Um Vulto na Praça da Batalha
A movie by Sério Fernandes and his students.
Vale do Fogo
Just as Christ carried his cross, Sério Fernandes carries one of his paintings between the ribeira de Gaia and the Palácio de Cristal in Porto. A journey through a dionysian and authentic “second Porto”, an “underground” Porto, a sidewalk Porto; so close and so far from that velvety and bourgeois “first Porto”...
Segundo Porto
A film made by Sério Fernandes students
Eticoga
A film made by Sério Fernandes and his students
Cabo Mondego
A movie by Sério Fernandes and his students.