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NE CHANGE RIEN
by Pedro Costa

Forthcoming releases & festivals

After THE CRITERION COLLECTION’s acclaimed release of Pedro Costa’s exciting four-dvd box set LETTERS FROM FONTAINHAS (featuring films OSSOS | IN VANDA'S ROOM | COLOSSAL YOUTH), the director’s latest film NE CHANGE RIEN continues to find its way to the cinema theatres in several countries around the world. Coming next are: Spain in June, Japan in July, Argentina and Austria in September.

On the that same month of September, NE CHANGE RIEN’s screening at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in New York, whose invited curator for this year’s edition is director Jim Jarmush, will set off the theatrical release that includes stops in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston and San Francisco. At the same time, actress Jeanne Balibar will grace the occasion with a series of live concerts in the territory.

On the festival circuit, NE CHANGE RIEN continues its intense tous, screening next in South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival starting this Wednesday 29th of April, where a complete retrospective of Pedro Costa’s work, the video installation of unused clips from IN VANDA’S ROOM and COLOSSAL YOUTH and a masterclass is planned alongside the publishing of “The Cinema World of Pedro Costa” a book with full precious reviews and essays from world-renowned film critics, such as Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hasumi Shigehiko, Tag Gallagher, James Quandt, Mark Peranson and Chris Fujiwara, and from world class directors like Aoyama shinji, John Gianvito, Suwa Nobuhiro and Tom Anderson.

The film is still available for some territories and I would be happy to meet with you in Cannes if you wish to discuss it! I shall be available from the 12th until the 19th of May, at the VILLAGE INT'L - RIVIERA Pavillon nr. 115 for PORTUGAL.

THE CRITERION COLLECTION brings to the USA home entertainment market

Pedro Costa's LETTERS FROM FONTAINHAS

"One of the most important artists on the international film scene today, Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been steadily building an impressive body of work since the late eighties. And these are the three films that put him on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. Hypnotic, controlled works, Ossos, In Vanda’s Room, and Colossal Youth confirm Costa as a provocative new cinematic poet, one who locates beauty in the most unlikely of places."

An exciting four-dvd box set featuring

OSSOS | IN VANDA'S ROOM | COLOSSAL YOUTH

Out on March 30th

http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/704

Doc about architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira - Int'l premiere at Montreal's Festival of Films on Art

The documentary NUNO TEOTÓNIO PEREIRA – A MAN IN THE CITY, directed by Joana da Cunha Ferreira, will be presented at the Horizons section of the 28th Internacional Festival of Films on Art, taking place in Montreal from March 18 to 28.

Nuno Teotónio Pereira is above all known for his work as an architect. Yet throughout his life, although he never stopped being an architect, he was much more than that... The film is a captivating voyage to the heart of his artistic creation...

After having also its national premiere at INDIELISBOA, the film is now honoured with this international selection for the most important annual event celebrating creativity, innovation and the performance of artists on the big screen.

ALDINA DUARTE – PROMISED PRINCESS, awarded at FAMAFEST 2010

The documentary by Manuel Mozos about one of Portugal’s greatest fado singers of today, ALDINA DUARTE – PROMISED PRINCESS, has just been awarded with:

Honorary Mention from the Official Jury

Special Prize from the Youth Jury

At the 12th edtion of FAMAFEST that took place from the 13th until the 21st of March, in Vila Nova de Famalicão.

For those who love Fado and the charming city of Lisbon this is a must-see gem about a unique a girlish lady, who sings “fado” out of conviction and love, taking us with her across the city of Lisbon, visiting the places she most loves and knows, exposing herself as a generous, lively and unique person...

In Portugal, the film premiered at the last edition of the independent film festival –INDIELISBOA, and its international premiere was in the competition of FIPA – 23rd International Festival of Audiovisual Programs – Performing Arts section, undeniably the most exciting event devoted to the finest of television fare in the world.

New documentary
GENTE DA CASA | PEOPLE FROM THE HOUSE, in competition @ DOCLISBOA VII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

GENTE DA CASA | PEOPLE FROM THE HOUSE, the new documentary by Ruy Otero & Carlos Gomes will be in competition at DOCLISBOA VII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, for the best national documentary among a distinguished choice of 10 films in total.

The festival is taking place from the 15th until the 25th of October in Lisbon, Portugal, and has been acclaimed by many:

James Norton – Vertigo
«doclisboa has established itself as one of the world’s leading documentary film festivals»

Ulla Jacobsen – Dox
«The selection at doclisboa shows that there is a festival that selects films for their artistic value»

Tue Steen Müller – Dox
«It happens, but not very often, that you get the feeling that a festival is made for you,
that it has a selection of films that matches your view on documentaries and your taste.
Doclisboa2008 did so.»

GENTE DA CASA | PEOPLE FROM THE HOUSE
Portugal, 2009, 96’

A house and the building of it over a year and a half.Machines, tools, materials, laborers.
Architects, builders, workers.Those who arrive and those who go away, throughout the
process until the work is done.The work on a daily basis, and the lives of all these people.
The people of the house.

Section National Competition – 18 OCT Cinema Londres 4:30 pm | 22 OCT Culturgest 7 :00 pm

www.doclisboa.org