When they silence the voices, music vibrates in the memory.

biografia

João Rui Guerra da Mata was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. He started working in cinema in 1995. He taught Art Direction / Production Design at the School of Theatre and Cinema (ESTC) from 2004 to 2011. As Art Director / Production Designer he worked on several short and feature films, highlighting the collaboration with the director João Pedro Rodrigues, in whose films he was also co-screenwriter. He was assistant director of the documentaries ESTA É A MINHA CASA and VIAGEM À EXPO (1997/1999), by the same director. This collaboration extended to directing in 2007, having co-directed the short films CHINA, CHINA - 39th Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes. Award for Best Short Film and Audience Award at the Belfort Festival and ALVORADA VERMELHA (2011) - Award for Best Short Film at the IndieLisboa Festival, international premiere at the Locarno Festival and the feature film A ÚLTIMA VEZ QUE VI MACAU (2012). In 2012 he directed O QUE ARDE CURA, his first solo short film, which premiered at the IndieLisboa Festival.

João Pedro Rodrigues was born in Lisbon in 1966. After a degree in Biology, João Pedro Rodrigues attended the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema between 1985 and 1989. He worked on four films as assistant director and editor between 1989 and 1996 with some well-known names in the Portuguese film industry, among them Teresa Villaverde. One of his first short films, "Parabéns!", from 1997, was shown at the Venice Film Festival in the same year and received a special mention from the Jury. In 2000 João Pedro Rodrigues took his first feature film, "O Fantasma" (2000) to the Belfort Film Festival, where it received the Award for the Best Foreign Feature Film. He recently directed "Odete", a feature film that won a Special Mention from the Cinémas de Recherche at Cannes 2005, Directors' Fortnight.

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