Red Dawn

Alvorada Vermelha

Portugal

2011

20 Min

Color

None

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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DIR João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

SCR João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

ED João Rui Guerra da Mata, Rui Mourão, João Pedro Rodrigues

SOUND Nuno Carvalho

Locarno (Corti d'autore), Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time), BAFICI (Trayectorias)

Synopsis

The Red Market in Macao. The red tonalities of blood, flesh, buckets and even of the fish’s eyes, carry the audience into a strange and scary universe but also beautiful and intriguing. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s camera emerges like a driving force giving us the exact balance between what exists and what we see. –Indie Lisboa

February 2011 at the Red Market, Macao’s famous food market. Two directors, a common look. The gestures and the routines, between life and death. In memoriam Jane Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011). –Locarno Film Festival

Director

João Pedro Rodrigues

João Pedro Rodrigues was born in Lisbon in 1966. After studying biology at Lisbon University he attended the Lisbon Film School, where he obtained his diploma. His public film career began at the 54th Venice Festival in 1997 with the short Parabéns!, which won the Special Jury Prize. In the same year he made Esta é a minha casa and Viagem à Expo, a two-part documentary. In 2000 he directed his first fiction feature, O Fantasma, which was screened in the 57th Venice Festival’s Official Competition. In 2005, Odete won several awards including a Cinémas de Recherche Special Mention at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. His feature project To Die Like a Man was selected in 2007 by Cinéfondation for L’Atelier in Cannes and was released in 2009. –Locarno Film Festival

João Rui Guerra da Mata

João Rui Guerra da Mata started working in film in 1995 as an art director on a number of short and feature films, notably those of João Pedro Rodrigues. He directed China, China (2007), a short, before co-scripting João Pedro Rodrigues’s To Die Like a Man (2009). –Locarno Film Festival