Licinio Azevedo

Director

“We don’t work with professional actors, but with normal people. And local people can only speak in their local idiom. If you make the farmer speak Portuguese, even if they actually can, then it’s the end of the film, because it’s a totally artificial thing.”

Biography

Licínio Azevedo is at the same time a director and a writer. He participated in the experiences of Ruy Guerra and Jean-Luc Godard, at the INC (National Film Institute of Mozambique). He is now an independent filmmaker and co-founder of Ebano Multimedia, the most important production company in Mozambique. His multiple productions have won awards all over the world. His first long feature-film, “Margarida”, is at the moment in post-production. —marfilmes.com