Nuno Escudeiro
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Biography
Nuno Escudeiro (1986, Portugal) is an Italy-based filmmaker and media artist with an MA in Media Studies from the University of Aveiro, Portugal and a specialization in Documentary Film Directing from ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Italy. His work focuses on politicized landscapes and the exploration of the idiosyncrasies of territories and populations affected by transformative events such as migration and climate change. His debut feature documentary The Valley (2019) received the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs Toronto and the Reporters Sans Frontières Award at FIGRA and was screened internationally in collaboration with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Arte, Public Sénat, International Commission of Jurists, among others. Nuno Escudeiro’s latest film, the mid-length Death of a Mountain (2023), premiered at the IndieLisboa International Film Festival and was awarded the Anthropocene Muse award at Trento Film Festival and Best Portuguese Film award at the International Film Festival of Santarém. His work has been presented at BFI London Film Festival, Uppsala Short Film Festival, Les Arcs, DOK.fest München, DocPoint Helsinki, Festival d'Avignon, Dublin Fringe and many others.
Known For
As thousands of migrants attempt to cross the French-Italian border on foot through treacherous mountain routes, the state cracks down on the local communities that come to their aid in this revealing look at an unfolding human rights crisis.
The Valley
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La Roya: la loi de la vallée
From a human point of view, a mountain is a barrier and a place of passage. Mountains have always been natural frontiers between territories. Nuno Escudeiro collected stories in Briançon, in the French High Alps, and in the Susa Valley, in the western part of Piedmont, and to these he added home movies from the Superottimisti Archivo di Film di Famiglia.
Death of a Mountain
As winter takes over the European Arctic, it turns into an unrecognizable place, cold and dark. Throughout the polar night, the north feels removed from all human life, uninhabitable, just like the moon. And yet, it is home to people born in faraway lands. What has brought them here? What keeps them here, immersed in darkness?