SOL NEGRO / BLACK SUN

MAUREEN FAZENDEIRO

2019 France Portugal EXP 7 '

Glimpses of the solar eclipse of march 20, 2015 in Lisbon. A letter from elsewhere recounts life in a distant land.

biografia

Maureen Fazendeiro was born in France in 1989. She completed a degree in Art and Literature and a master’s in Cinema Studies at the Denis Diderot University – Paris VII. In 2012, she joined Independencia (now, Norte), where she was developing the distribution of films and accompanying the publishing of books on cinema. In 2014, she concluded her first film, Motu Maeva, screened at FID Marseille and various international film festivals, museums and cinematheques, and for which she received various awards. She works with film medium and is a member of L'abominable, an artist-run film laboratory based in Paris. Since 2016, she is working as a co-writer for Miguel Gomes’s upcoming film, Selvajaria, and has been preparing her first feature-length film, As Estações.

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