Carlos Miranda
Directing
Biography
Carlos Miranda is a director, producer and editor. His first film "24 Memories per Second" premiered internationally at MoMA Doc Fortnight, in New York. Recently, he produced and edited the feature documentary "Ary" and directed the short "Marcos" (produced by OPTEC – “Vitalina Varela”). With filmmaking training at both national (Kino-Doc, Lisbon) and international level (NFTS, UK), he also has professional experience in motion and graphic design and an MA in Sociology, with a thesis on cultural diversity in cinema. He is also author in an online publication (Cinemaville) and co-founder of the Offside Lisboa Film Festival.
Known For
One of the great rivalries of European football, the friction between the supporters of Lisbon's two great clubs Benfica and Sporting is historic and growing. Divided along class lines, geography and more than 100 years of intense enmity, the two most successful clubs in Portuguese football are the fiercest of rivals.
The Lisbon Derby
Ary Zara lives in limbo trying to understand who he really is. Refusing the gender binary categories that society imposes, at the age of 28 he decides to explore his identity by facing a physical and emotional transformation. A three-year journey revealing what is on the other side of the mirror through the courage, doubt and freedom of a deeply intimate process of self-discovery.
Ary
After the raging fire, landmarks are rediscovered, artificial frontiers carved into the earth. They are stones founded in history by almost extinct ways of doing, where word is law. As nature renews itself, Helena reestablishes the limits of her property and preserves a legacy in which the material is mixed with the human, returning to the roots of an intangible fortune.
Landmarkers
At the National Archive of the Moving Images in Portugal, archivists discuss the powerful bond between people and a machine that preserves a very delicate medium.
24 Memories per Second
Journey into Ricardo Martins' creative continuum. The conception of the album 'Distraimento' as a visual moment of a perpetual cycle of transformation, where music evolves as a living organism.