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Author Jorge Mourinha

Jorge Mourinha

Jorge Mourinha is a film critic at Lisbon's daily newspaper Público and maintains film review blog The Flickering Wall.

Documents and Eyewitnesses: the Archipelago of the 12th Doclisboa

Jorge Mourinha
December 2014
Festival Reports
Jean-Luc Godard may not have invented the filmic convergence of la grande Histoire and la petite histoire, of the way that art and, especially, cinema can highlight the intersection between personal history and...

The Proof and the Pudding: Indie Lisboa’s 10th Anniversary Edition

Jorge Mourinha
June 2013
Festival Reports
Ten years is always a nice age for any film festival to reach, especially in a country in a deep recession where the investment in culture has shrunk to almost non-existent numbers. It's to its credit that Indi...

A State of Urgency: The 2012 DocLisboa – International Documentary Film Festival

Jorge Mourinha
November 2012
Festival Reports
Urgency was the key word for the 10th anniversary of DocLisboa. The urgency of the state of the world around us; the urgency of finding new ways to translate it into moving images; the urgency of showing people...

State of the Nation: Portuguese Short Film at the 20th Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival

Jorge Mourinha
August 2012
Festival Reports
In 1993, critic and essayist Augusto M. Seabra published a prescient column in the daily Público saluting a new generation of Portuguese filmmakers emerging in the short film format, usually little seen out...

Telling Real-Life Stories: the 9th DocLisboa International Documentary Film Festival

Jorge Mourinha
December 2011
Festival Reports
Over the course of nine years, DocLisboa has grown in stature into one of the key European shop windows of modern non-fiction film. Lisbon's documentary film festival has become a yearly rendezvous, an opportun...
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28,000 People Can’t be Wrong: The 3rd IndieLisboa Festival

Jorge Mourinha
July 2006
Festival Reports
April 20–30, 2006 What exactly defines “indie cinema” these days? Its subject, its mode of production or of release, its format, its budget, some indefinable melding of all the above? We could hang aroun...

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