Marco Martins Realizador
Marco Martins (1972) studied at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, completing its education in the United States through script writing at Tisch School of Arts afterwards. Co-funded Ministério dos Filmes in 1999, a distinguished ad producer with many national and international mentions and with which he debuts itself in the television fiction production area with SARA, a eight-episode series with debut scheduled to October 2018 on RTP 2. The series' first two episodes were shown, in first hand, at IndieLisboa Festival 2018. Marco Martins' work covers various areas, including cinema, plastic arts and theater. His movies have been exposed in the main International Festivals, and he has won in 2005 the Prix Regard Jeune with “Alice”. He was also awarded in festivals such as Mar del Plata, Rotterdam and London Raindance Film Festival, among other distinctions such as the Fassbinder Award (European Discovery of the Year). In 2006 he directed the short film “Um ano mais longo” ("A longer year", in a free translation) written in partnership with Tonino Guerra, persent at Veneza Festival's Official Contest. “São Jorge”, his most recent movie, was competing at Veneza Festival, where Nuno Lopes won the Golden Lion (Horizons Award) and debuting commercially in various countries afterwards. It was, like "Alice", pre-selected to compete to the Oscar of best foreign movie, and even to the Goya Award. In Portugal, “São Jorge” received many awards from Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (including the Best Portuguese Movie of 2017) and received seven Sophia awards from Academia Portuguesa de Cinema. In the plastic arts field, he has collaborated with many artists, with highlight to the multi-channel video-setup “Twenty One - The Day the World Didn’t End”, co-directed with the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistolletto and exposed in the Louvre Museum, integrating the Year One - Earthly Paradise retrospective, and also the “Insert” movie, co-directed with the portuguese artist Filipa César, a work that has won the BES Arts and Finance Award and the IndieLisboa Festival Best Director award (2011). In the Theater field he founded, in 2007, with Beatriz Batarda, the Arena Ensemble company which, ever since, has been regularly showing spectacles in the main national theaters. His stage work is divided between a classic text work with a strong choreographic component and community projects, the latter being the case of his last project, “Provisional Figures Great Yarmouth”, recently debuted at the Norwich & Norfolk Festival.
“São Jorge” (2016) Digital , 110 min., Color Director: Marco Martins Producer: François d’Artemare (Filmes do Tejo II/Les Films de l’Après-Midi), Maria João Mayer Financial support: Cast: Nuno Lopes, Mariana Nunes, David Semedo, José Raposo, Beatriz Batarda, Gonçalo Waddington, among others AWARDS & FESTIVALS Panama 2017 Barcelona Auteur Krakow Off Camera SFF. Sydney Film Festival Film Fest Munich 20 Semaine du Cinema Lusophone Caminhos do Cinema Português (Melhor Filme, Melhor Realizador, Melhor Actor) Sophia Awards (Best Movie, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Photography, Best Artistic Direction, Best Secondary Actor) SPA Awards (Best Movie, Best Script, Best Actor) Portuguese Nomination for the Oscars Portuguese Nomination for the Goyas Festival Internacional de Cinema de Veneza (Leão de Ouro – Melhor Actor) Chicago International Film Festival Thessaloniki International Film Festival Tbilissi Film Festival São Paulo Cinema Exhibition Prague Febiofest Buenos Aires Film Festival Macau Film Festival (Melhor Realizador, Melhor Actor) Dubai IFF Goa Film Festival Copenhagen CPH PIX Venice in Naples Film Festival Hong Kong European FF “Twenty-One Twelve: The Day the World Didn’t End “ – Documentary (2013) AWARDS & FESTIVALS Louvre Museum – Debut Roma Movie Festival – CineMaXXII – Official Selection DocLisboa – Honorable Mention Digital, 120 min, Color Director: Marco Martins and Michelangelo Pistoletto Producer: Renzo Barssoti (CCTAR) Financial support: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, BES Arts and Finance “Insert” (2010/2011) 16mm, 18 min, Black and White Director: Marco Martins Financial support: Bes Arte & Finança Cast: Mónica Calle and Joana Barrios AWARDS & FESTIVALS Bes Photo 2010 – Belém Cultural Center (Winner of Bes Photo 2010, Portugal) São Paulo Bienal 2010 (Brazil) Rotterdam Film Festival (Netherlands) Indie Lisboa (Best Director, Restart Award) EUNIC Stockholm Kulturhuset (Sweden) Femina, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Rencontres Lille (France) Conde Village Short Film Festival (Portugal) “Como desenhar um círculo perfeito” (2009/2010) Puchon International Film Festival (South Korea) Muestra de Cine Português (Spain) European Union Film Festival (Canada) Coimbra Cinema Meetings (Best Soundtrack, Best Artistic Direction and Best Secondary Actress) Globos de Ouro, Portugal (Nominated for Best Movie, Best Actress and Best Actor) Estoril Fim Festival (Revelation Award to Rafael Morais) European Cinema Festival, Kaliningrad (Russia) 35mm, 122 min, Color Director: Marco Martins Producer: António da Cunha and Telles e Pandora da Cunha e Telles (UKBAR) Financial support: ICAM, RTP and FICA Cast: Rafael Morais, Joana de Verona, Daniel Duval, Beatriz Batarda, among others AWARDS & FESTIVALS Rio de Janeiro Film Festival (Brazil) IndieLisboa (Portugal) “Traces Of A Diary” (2009/2010) – Documentary 16mm (transcribed to HD), 90 min, Black and White Director: Marco Martins Producer: Maria João Mayer (Filmes do Tejo II) Financial support: ICAM, RTP, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Cast: Takuma Nakahira, Hiromix, Daido Moriyama, Kajii Syoin, Kohei Yoshiyuki and Nobuyoshi Araki AWARDS & FESTIVALS IndieLisboa (Portugal) Era New Horizons (Polónia) Festival do Rio (Brasil) Mountain Photo Film Festival (Itália) 32nd Noorderlijk Film Festival (Holanda) Goteborg Film Festival (Suécia) 17th Bradford International Film Festival (UK) 5a Mostra do Documentário Português Panorama (Espanha) Documenta Madrid (Epanha) – Menção Honrosa Mostra Fotocine Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) Transylvania International Film Festival (Roménia) Traverse City Film Festival (EUA) EU Cinema Festival In Kaliningrad (Rússia) “Um Ano Mais Longo” (2006/2007) 35mm, 30 min, Cor Realizador: Marco Martins Produtor: Renzo Barsotti Apoio financeiro: ICAM and RTP Elenco: Gonçalo Waddington, Teresa Sobral e Margarida Shou PRÉMIOS & FESTIVAIS Abertura do Lisbon Village Festival (Portugal) Venice Film Festival (Itália) Competição Oficial – Corto Cortissimo. Rotterdam Film Festival (Holanda) Toulouse Latin American Film Festival (França) “Alice” (2005-2006) 35mm, 102 min, cor Realizador: Marco Martins Produtor: Paulo Branco (Clap Films) Apoio financeiro: ICAM e RTP Elenco: Nuno Lopes, Beatriz Batarda, Laura Soveral, Miguel Guilherme, Gonçalo Waddington, entre outros PRÉMIOS & FESTIVAIS Festival de Cannes 2005 (PRIX REGARDS JEUNE) Mar del Plata International Film Festival (ASTOR – Melhor Realizador, ASTOR – Melhor Fotografia, Fipresci) International Film Festival Las Palmas (Melhor Novo Realizador) Festival de Cinema Luso Brasileiro (Melhor Realizador, Melhor Actor) European Film Awards (Fassebinder Awards- Nomeado) Globos de Ouro, Portugal (Melhor Actor, Melhor Filme) Cineport (Melhor Realizador, Melhor Montagem, Melhor Fotografia, Melhor Banda Sonora) London Raindance Film Festival (Melhor Primeiro Filme) Berlin International Film Festival (Prémio Revelação – Nuno Lopes) Festival do Rio de Janeiro (Competição Oficial) Provincetown Film Festival (Competição Oficial) Lubliana Film Festival (Competição Oficial) New York Tribeca Film Festival (Competição Oficial) Taiwan Film Festival (Competição Oficial) Silver Ariel (Nomeado Melhor Filme Ibero-Americano do Ano) Festival de Berlim (Prémio Revelação 2006 – Nuno Lopes)
Prémio Luís Buñuel (Candidato português) OUTROS FESTIVAIS BAFTA- Fourth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (UK) Danish Film Institute (Dinamacar) Festival de Haifa (Israel) Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan) Ljubljana Film Festival (Estónia) Festival International de Jeonju (Coreia do Sul) Febiofest (República Checa) 100.000 Retinas – Barcelona (Espanha) Ariel Awards – Competição (México) BFI – London Psychology Film Festival (UK) Havana International Film Festival (Cuba) Festival de Cinema Pobre (Cuba) MK2 Paris Festival- New Portuguese Cinema Showcase (França) EU Cinema Festival In Kaliningrad (Rússia) European Cinema Festival (China) Nomeação Portuguesa aos Óscars Nomeação Portuguesa aos Goya “No Caminho Para A Escola” (1998) 16mm, 20 min, cor Realizador: Marco Martins Produtor: Marco Martins Apoio financeiro: ICAM e RTP Elenco: Rodrigo Saraiva, Alix Sarrouy, Teresa Madruga, Margarida Marinho PRÉMIOS & FESTIVAIS Festival de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde (Portugal) Festival de Ourense (Portugal) – Melhor Filme – Prémio Atlantic Exsis Award Iberian Film Festival (Espanha) – Melhor Filme e Melhor Realizador “Mergulho No Ano Novo” (1992) 16mm, 23 min, cor Realizador: Marco Martins e João Braz Produtor: Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema Apoio financeiro: IPACA e RTP PRÉMIOS & FESTIVAIS: Festival de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde (Portugal) – Melhor Filme – Competição Nacional Tel-Aviv International Film Festival Valencia Film Festival (Cinema Juve’95) Toulouse Film FestivalFILMOGRAPHY & AWARDS