They thought life would have been simple. Every obligation, every problem involved in material life would find a natural solution. Each morning, it would be nice to seat at the kitchen table after having a shower and even before getting dressed, they would have breakfast. On the table there would be butter, pots of jam and pieces of toast. It would be early. It would be the beginning of a long day of work.

biografia

Susana Nobre (1974). In 1998 she graduates in Communication Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She collaborated in setting up the Filmmaking Lab of Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, where she participated in several video productions commissioned by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. In 2004 Susana developed together with producer Raiva a workshop for senior citizens (financially supported by ICAM/MC) star-ting from a piece about memory. In the Summer 2005 she attended under he Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the Film Directing course in collaboration with The London Film School. She taught the Film Directing class at Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Caldas da Rainha in 2010. She is a funder partner of TERRATREME OFICINA – Cultural Society, started in 2012. She has directed the films The Swimmers, 2001; Daycare Hospital, 2003, It would have been simple, 2006 and Lisboa Província, 2010. Right now she is preparing the documentary Vida Activa and she coordinates the documental series No trilho dos naturalistas – As missões botânicas em África, a project by several authors.

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