Asa
Directing
Biography
Asa (pseudonym), also known by her birth name Marta Ribeiro, was born in Porto, Portugal. Asa finished high school at Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, specializing in Multimedia, where her first short film “Hotaru” was produced, awarded and winner of the STUFFit Student Film Festival in the Senior Animation Category and Cinedita's Film Festival - Arganil's Shorts Competition. She attended the course Imagem Animada at the University of Algarve, where she was awarded second place in the selection of best animated short at the Sophia Festival - Student Edition, with the film " ímpar " made with two other directors.
Known For
Two energies that exchange glances, yield to a passion that vibrates in harmony. Both are transmuted, revealing themselves as witnesses that with a gesture of love it is possible to deserve the world.
The Beating Seed
A Bird spies the pain of the world, silenced by the sphere in which it confines itself. Fruit of freedom's essence, but without possession of it, the pair of wings takes comfort in the shadows that dance between the cycle of life. After a tempting debate with his own reflection, the bird conquers the skies, judging himself free at last. But would that freedom be free? Or an even bigger cage?
The World's Biggest Cage
In a reality where the common goal is to find one’s freedom, lives a peculiar man who hasn’t yet fulfilled that wish. He feels trapped despite having flight as his biggest ambition.
Onliest
Nova, immersed in metaphors that cross her unconscious, is guided by fate, door to door.
Hotaru
An animated interpretation of the poem "The Dead" By Sophia de Mello Breyner. This adaptation follows the perpetual cycle of the immaterial abyss, the faceless human remains, walking hungry for our bodies, wanting to taste once more the true essence of life.