Eduardo Geada
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Eduardo Geada is a Portuguese
film director
, screenwriter and professor.
In 1978, as a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship winner, he finished his specialization in Film Studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts (London College University).
He completed his Master of Arts in Media and Communication at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon), with the thesis O Cinema Espectáculo (The Film Show, 1985). He got a Phd in Film and History of the Media, with the thesis: Os Mundos do Cinema: Modelos Dramáticos e Narrativos no Período Clássico (1997).
He was a professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon (theatre and film school) from 1978 to 2004. He has been teaching at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social (media and communication college) since 2004. He is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (2007/2008).
Between 1968 and 1976 he worked as a film critic for magazines and newspapers : Seara Nova, Vértice, Vida Mundial, A Capital, República and Expresso. He was the author and presenter of the radio programme Moviola (1985/86), on Antena 1, dedicated to film sound-tracks.
He made a TV show on cinema and culture. Between the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies, Geada gave an important contribution to film criticism, submitting his ideas on cinema to enlarged discussion, and publishing several books.
From 1997 to 2002 he was the managing director to the CulturSintra Foundation (Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra
)..
. In the film take part some of the most important representatives of Portuguese culture, such as David Mourão-Ferreira
, Jorge Peixinho
, Eduardo Prado Coelho
. As a bébutant, João Lopes, a future well-known film journalist and critic, worked in this film as assistant director. In spite of some problems with production, the film is finished. It raised expectations that would not entirely meet director's ambitions.
After the revolution, Geada, a left-winged militant
filmmaker among others, feels happy to be allowed to show his films uncensored in TV. He is free, like many others, to show things that had never been seen: the new Portuguese reality, focused by an optics very sensible to social justice and social progress, entering everybody's homes: Lisboa, o Direito à Cidade, A Revolução está na Ordem do Dia, and Temos Festa are three films representative of the important Portuguese movement of the cinema militante, which left many films that would become historical documents of an undeniable value.
One of his first films was O Funeral do Patrão (1975), based on a play by the Italian playwright Dario Fo
. A Santa Aliança (1977), based on a scenario by Geada himself, has the pamphlet-like structure of some other interesting post-Revolution films and was selected for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs, Cannes Film Festival
. A most recent film, Passagem por Lisboa (1993), shows the memory of cinema: the film is dedicated to Félix Ribeiro and Luís de Pina, two pillars of the Portuguese Film Archive (Cinemateca Portugusesa). Mixing documentary
and fiction
, the film revisits Lisbon
, at the beginning of the forties, with the participation of famous people, like Pola Negri
, Leslie Howard (actor)
, the Duke of Windsor
, Primo di Rivera and the fictitious character Victor Laszlo (in the movie Casablanca).
, Portuguese Cinematheque, 1999
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, screenwriter and professor.
generic
He graduated in Anglo-American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon University (1976). Like other young Portuguese cinéphiles from his generation, he plunged in the world of cinema taking active part at the important film club movement of the sixties, an open and vivid place where he, like several other future filmmakers, assimilated techniques and theories.In 1978, as a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship winner, he finished his specialization in Film Studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts (London College University).
He completed his Master of Arts in Media and Communication at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon), with the thesis O Cinema Espectáculo (The Film Show, 1985). He got a Phd in Film and History of the Media, with the thesis: Os Mundos do Cinema: Modelos Dramáticos e Narrativos no Período Clássico (1997).
He was a professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon (theatre and film school) from 1978 to 2004. He has been teaching at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social (media and communication college) since 2004. He is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley (2007/2008).
Between 1968 and 1976 he worked as a film critic for magazines and newspapers : Seara Nova, Vértice, Vida Mundial, A Capital, República and Expresso. He was the author and presenter of the radio programme Moviola (1985/86), on Antena 1, dedicated to film sound-tracks.
He made a TV show on cinema and culture. Between the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies, Geada gave an important contribution to film criticism, submitting his ideas on cinema to enlarged discussion, and publishing several books.
From 1997 to 2002 he was the managing director to the CulturSintra Foundation (Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra
Sintra
Sintra is a town within the municipality of Sintra in the Grande Lisboa subregion of Portugal. Owing to its 19th century Romantic architecture and landscapes, becoming a major tourist centre, visited by many day-trippers who travel from the urbanized suburbs and capital of Lisbon.In addition to...
)..
Filmmaker
He is a film and a TV director. His first film, Sofia ou a Educação Sexual (1973), was one of the last to be censored by the old regime and shown only after the Carnation RevolutionCarnation Revolution
The Carnation Revolution , also referred to as the 25 de Abril , was a military coup started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, coupled with an unanticipated and extensive campaign of civil resistance...
. In the film take part some of the most important representatives of Portuguese culture, such as David Mourão-Ferreira
David Mourão-Ferreira
David de Jesus Mourão-Ferreira, GCSE was a Portuguese writer and poet from Lisbon.He was a son of David Ferreira and wife Teresa de Jesus Ferro Mourão...
, Jorge Peixinho
Jorge Peixinho
Jorge Peixinho was a Portuguese composer, pianist, and conductor.Peixinho studied composition and piano initially at the Conservatory of Lisbon , then studied composition with Boris Porena and Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia de Santa Cecilia in Rome, graduating in 1961...
, Eduardo Prado Coelho
Eduardo Prado Coelho
Eduardo Prado Coelho was a Portuguese writer, journalist, columnist and university professor. He was also a political and cultural critic....
. As a bébutant, João Lopes, a future well-known film journalist and critic, worked in this film as assistant director. In spite of some problems with production, the film is finished. It raised expectations that would not entirely meet director's ambitions.
After the revolution, Geada, a left-winged militant
Militant
The word militant, which is both an adjective and a noun, usually is used to mean vigorously active, combative and aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in 'militant reformers'. It comes from the 15th century Latin "militare" meaning "to serve as a soldier"...
filmmaker among others, feels happy to be allowed to show his films uncensored in TV. He is free, like many others, to show things that had never been seen: the new Portuguese reality, focused by an optics very sensible to social justice and social progress, entering everybody's homes: Lisboa, o Direito à Cidade, A Revolução está na Ordem do Dia, and Temos Festa are three films representative of the important Portuguese movement of the cinema militante, which left many films that would become historical documents of an undeniable value.
One of his first films was O Funeral do Patrão (1975), based on a play by the Italian playwright Dario Fo
Dario Fo
Dario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...
. A Santa Aliança (1977), based on a scenario by Geada himself, has the pamphlet-like structure of some other interesting post-Revolution films and was selected for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs, Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
. A most recent film, Passagem por Lisboa (1993), shows the memory of cinema: the film is dedicated to Félix Ribeiro and Luís de Pina, two pillars of the Portuguese Film Archive (Cinemateca Portugusesa). Mixing documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
and fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
, the film revisits Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, at the beginning of the forties, with the participation of famous people, like Pola Negri
Pola Negri
Pola Negri was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles from the 1910s through the 1940s during the Golden Era of Hollywood film. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became a great American star. She...
, Leslie Howard (actor)
Leslie Howard (actor)
Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind and roles in Berkeley Square , Of Human Bondage , The Scarlet Pimpernel , The Petrified Forest , Pygmalion , Intermezzo , Pimpernel Smith...
, the Duke of Windsor
Duke of Windsor
The title Duke of Windsor was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937 for Prince Edward, the former King Edward VIII, following his abdication in December 1936. The dukedom takes its name from the town where Windsor Castle, a residence of English monarchs since the Norman Conquest, is...
, Primo di Rivera and the fictitious character Victor Laszlo (in the movie Casablanca).
Academic Qualifications
- 1976: Degree in Anglo-American Studies from the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University.
- 1977/78: Grant student from the Gulbenkian Foundation at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he obtained the post-graduate degree in Film Studies.
- 1984/85: Completes the M.A. in Cinema in the Department of Media Studies at the New University of Lisbon.
- 1997: PhD Thesis on Scriptwriting and Film History in the Department of Media Studies at the New University of Lisbon.
- 1978 to 2002: he has lectured at the Higher Institute of Cinema and Theatre.
- Since 2002: he has lectured at the Higher Institute of Sciences of Communication.
Books
- 1977: IMPERIALISM AND FASCISM IN THE CINEMA (O Imperialismo e o Fascismo no Cinema), Moraes, Lisbon.
- 1978: CINEMA AND TRANSFIGURATION (Cinema e Transfiguração), Horizonte, Lisbon.
- 1985: THE POWER OF THE CINEMA (O Poder do Cinema), Horizonte, Lisbon.
- 1986: AESTHETICS OF THE CINEMA (Estéticas do Cinema - organização), Dom Quixote, Lisbon.
- 1987: THE CINEMA SPECTACLE (O Cinema Espectáculo), Edições 70, Lisbon.
- 1998: THE WORLDS OF THE CINEMA (Os Mundos do Cinema), Editorial Notícias, Lisbon.
feature films for cinema
- 1973: SOFIA AND SEXUAL EDUCATION (Sofia e a Educação Sexual)
- 1976: THE HOLY ALLIANCE (A Santa Aliança)
- 1985: GREETINGS FOR DONA GENCIANA (Saudades para Dona Genciana) (after José Rodrigues Miguéis)
- 1988: STREET OF NO RETURN (personal assistant to Samuel FullerSamuel FullerSamuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes.-Personal life:...
) - 1993: PASSAGE TO LISBON (Passagem por Lisboa)
TV films and programmes
- 1974: LISBON, THE RIGHT TO THE CITY (documentary about Lisbon).
- 1975: THE BOSS'S FUNERAL (after a play by Dario FoDario FoDario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...
). - 1976: PARTY TIME (documentary series).
- 1978: UNAVOIDABLE RISK (cultural series with sculptor Lagoa Henriques).
- 1979: MARIANA ALCOFORADO (after the translation by Eugénio de AndradeEugénio de AndradeEugénio de Andrade was the pseudonym of José Fontinhas, GOSE, GCM , a Portuguese poet.José Fontinhas was born at Póvoa de Atalaia, Fundão. He is revered as one of the leading names in contemporary Portuguese poetry...
). - 1982/83: LISBON LIMITED SOCIETY, fictional series including:
- THE ANARCHIST BANKER, after Fernando PessoaFernando PessoaFernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa , was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.-Early years in Durban:On 13 July...
. - THE MAN WHO CAN'T WRITE, after Almada NegreirosAlmada NegreirosJosé Sobral de Almada Negreiros was a Portuguese artist. He was born in the then colony of São Tomé e Príncipe, the son of a Portuguese father, António Lobo de Almada Negreiros, and a Santomean mother, Elvira Freire Sobral...
. - A JOURNEY IN OUR OWN LAND, after José Rodrigues Miguéis.
- THE RITUAL OF THE LITTLE VAMPIRES, after José Cardoso PiresJosé Cardoso PiresJosé Cardoso Pires, ComL, GCM was a Portuguese author of short stories, novels, plays, and political satire.-Origins and formative influences:Born in the village of São João do Peso, municipailty of Vila de Rei, Castelo Branco district...
. - THE IMPOSSIBLE EVASION, after Urbano Tavares RodriguesUrbano Tavares RodriguesUrbano Tavares Rodrigues, GCIH is a Portuguese professor of literature, a literary critic and a fiction writer, winner of many literary prizes. He was born in 1923 in Lisbon, Portugal, but spent most of his childhood near Moura, in Alentejo, the Southern region of Portugal...
. - SUNSET IN AREEIRO, after Sttau Monteiro.
- THE ANARCHIST BANKER, after Fernando Pessoa
- 1986/87: THE SHAPE OF THINGS (cultural series).
arts and culture management
- 1996 to 2002: Arts Manager of the Cultursintra Foundation in Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra (classified World Heritage by the Unesco).
Bibliographic references
O Cais do Olhar by José de Matos-CruzJosé de Matos-Cruz
José de Matos-Cruz is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. From 1980 to 2010, he works at the Cinemateca Portuguesa , in Lisbon...
, Portuguese Cinematheque, 1999