18H00 → 19H30 — SCREENING
‘Ela é uma Música’ [She is a Song]
by Francisca Marvão
+ Q&A Session with Francisca Marvão
Pequeno Auditório [Small Auditorium], Teatro Rivoli, Porto.
Price: 3€.
Synopsis: The universe of amplified guitars and distorted sound is a mostly
male environment. But if we listen better and more carefully, it’s a different story.
From the 1950s to the present day, director Francisca Marvão opens the treasure
chest of living testimonies and from it images and sounds that had never before
entered the canon of Portuguese music begin to leap out. The girls are out
there… rockin’ like there’s no tomorrow! She Is A Song is a voyage of discovery
through the world of rock in Portugal, in the voice of its illustrious unknowns:
women.
Francisca Marvão has a degree in Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication
from Lusófona University in Lisbon. She also attended the European course
CIAKL-Cinema and Industry Alliance of knowledge, sponsored by companies
such as Zon, Novabase and Avid. She was awarded first place in the category
of best idea, best project and best business with a documentary series. With
the short film ‘A Espiral da Morte dos Operários-Formiga’ [The Death Spiral of the Ant-Workers], written and directed by her, she won an honorable mention
in 2011 at the Zon awards and the first place at the Erasmus Film Fest. She
also directed ‘A Lucidez do Absurdo’ [The Lucidity of the Absurd], screened at
several international and national festivals. In 2017 she released her short film ‘O
Descanso na Intensidade das Cores’ [The Rest in the Intensity of Colours] at the
Doclisboa festival and in 2019 she released her first feature-length film about
women and rock in Portugal, ‘Ela é uma Música’ [She is a Music], at the IndieLisboa
festival. Besides films, she directs and edits music videos, does concert
programming and is the guitarist of a Lisbon punk band, Matriarca Paralítica.
