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Melgaço International
Documentary Film Festival
by Patrícia Nogueira
Patrícia Nogueira is a documentary filmmaker, engaged with
issues of women representation.
In her first feature documentary, 3 hours to love, Patricia pursues
her favorite topic and tries to engage the audience with women
emotions and sexuality. She usually says that is « a feminine film
from a feminine point of view». The film won the award for Best
Documentary at Viana do Castelo Cinema Meetings (2013) and
was of officially selected for DocLisboa (2013), Cine Las Americas,
at USA (2014), FEST (2014) and Berlin Feminist Film Week (2015).
Patricia is also a doctoral researcher in Digital Media, from the University of Texas,
Austin - Portugal International Program, researching interactive documentary. Her aim
is to understand audiences in interactive documentary, working along with the National
Film Board of Canada to pursue this objective.
The identity of Cinema, as of mankind, is diverse, complex and fascinating. Therefore, it is necessary to acknowledge and celebrate this diversity, without neglecting
neither film nor the identity, regarding the peripheral voices.
FILMES DO HOMEM - Melgaço International
Documentary Film Festival, presents itself as
a privileged space to bring diversity together,
while reveals adaptation problems caused by
human displacement. It is a space of meeting,
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sharing and questioning. We seek for representations of this particular world, resulting
from creative processes in the image and sound
fields, where various memories and identities
are put into dialogue.