Vasco Pimentel
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Biography: Vasco Pimentel is a renowned Portuguese sound engineer and sound designer. He studied music in the National Conservatory, and film at the National School of Theater and Cinema in Lisbon. His professional work spans from being sound designer and sound engineer in film and theater, filmmaker, music composer for theatre and feature length films, as well as visual artist. Since 1979, Vasco Pimentel has been active in more than 130 feature-length films and numerous documentaries and short-films. Some notable projects have been in collaboration with film directors such as Wim Wenders, Raul Ruiz, Werner Schroeter, Samuel Fuller, Vincent Gallo, Fred Kelemen, Robert Kramer, João Cesar Monteiro, Miguel Gomes, and Teresa Villaverde.
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Vazante
Overview: Brazil 1821. Upon his return to the imposing farmhouse, Antonio, a rich cattle herder, finds out that his wife dies in labor. Forced to live in the property with numerous African slaves, he marries his wife's niece. A restless soul, he returns to droving, leaving his young wife behind alone with the slaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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John From
Overview: Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbor in the local community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'
Overview: A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee/player in the finished film). Paulo "Miller" is known for taking a dangerous jump into the Alva from a bridge each year during carnival, but what this film is about is, in keeping with the free-roving feature, much less the subject himself than Gomes and co.'s inability to pin him down; not only does he not do his famous jump during this year's carnival, but an ostensible technical/audio failure (as with the feature, it's very difficult to say how much of this film is "fact," how much invented) during Gomes's initial on-camera meeting with Paulo "Miller" leads to five minutes of lip-readers attempting to decipher their conversation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Manoel’s Destinies
Overview: When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-08-02
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April Captains
Overview: Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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Acts of Cinema
Overview: Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-01
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Tabu
Overview: Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-04-05
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Fado, Major and Minor
Overview: Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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The Jester
Overview: Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-10-31
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Rending
Overview: A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Dead Man's Seat
Overview: A newspaper reporter comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover that the man has been murdered. The woman takes off, but the reporter, after many twists and turns, runs into her on a train. They start a relationship, but he had better pay closer attention to how he got to know her in the first place.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-10-25
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The Tsugua Diaries
Overview: Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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Guardian of the Night
Overview: With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man who works as a cop at night. The catch is that Yves turns to petty crime during the day, partly to impress Aurore (Aurelle Doazan), a nurse he idolizes from afar. His criminal hobby seems hard to understand, since it's doubtful that they will really get him anywhere with Aurore; besides, she already has a boyfriend. Nevertheless, Yves starts out by robbing a post office and ends up trying to run over Aurore's boyfriend, an act which finally gets him into serious trouble.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-16
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From Now On
Overview: Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Grand Tour
Overview: In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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