Pátio Do Carrasco – The Damned Yard
- Duration : 46' |
- Language : Portuguese |
- Screening Format : DCP; 5.1 mix |
- Shooting format : 16mm
“… so that past and future merged in one single present , the strange, terrible life of the Damned Yard.”
Ivo Andrić
André Gil Mata
Director, screenwriter, actor and director of photography (São João da Madeira, 1978). He studied mathematics and worked in photography and theater. He was curator of the Luso-Brazilian Film Festival in Santa Maria da Feira between 2001 and 2008. He founded the photography and film laboratory Átomo47 and the film production company Bando à Parte. In 2010 he was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. Arca d’Água, his debut film, won several awards and was selected for numerous international festivals. Casa (2010) was premiered at IndieLisboa’01. Captivity was awarded the DocAlliance prize at Cannes (2013). Kako sam se Zaljubio u Evu Ras received a Special Mention in the international competition at FIDMarseille in 2016. In 2017 he directed the short film Num Globo de Neve (IndieLisboa 2017). He holds a PhD in filmmaking from film.factory in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016). Drvo – The Tree (2018), his latest feature, had its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2018, with commercial release in Portuguese cinemas (2018) and in France (May 2021). His most recent medium-length film “Pátio do Carrasco” premiered in Competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival, co-produced by Rua Escura, a film cooperative he founded in 2020 in Porto.
His work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Batalha Centro de Cinema (February, Porto, 2023), the Doc’s Kingdom Seminar (Arcos de Valdevez, 2019) and the Luso-Brazilian Film Festival (Santa Maria da Feira, 2012). In 2023, the book “The Cinema of André Gil Mata: Some Light in the Darkness”, about his film work was published by the Batalha Centro de Cinema.
He is currently in post-production on his next feature film Sob a Chama da Candeia, a Portuguese-French co-production between Rua Escura and So-cle (FR), and is developing the feature films Frãcisco Dolãda and O Escapulário, all of which are supported by ICA for the writing and development of film projects.
He teaches directing at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto.
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Production
Agente a Norte
Primeira Idade
Rua Escura -
Producers
André Gil Mata
Frederico Lobo
Luís Palito
João Vladimiro
Marta Lima
Pedro Fernandes Duarte -
Script an Direction
André Gil Mata - Based on "A Fratricide” by Franz Kafka
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With
Catarina Lacerda
David Almeida
António Júlio
André Gil Mata -
Cinematographer
Frederico Lobo
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Direção de produção
Marta Lima
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Assistant Director
João Vladimiro
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Continuity
Luís Palito
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Gaffer
Ivan Castiñeiras
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Electricians
Rui Baptista
Pedro Bernardino -
Grip
Adriano Alves da Rocha
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Grip assistant
Pedro Bernardino
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Art assitants
Carlos Pinheiro
Pedro Guimarães
Rodrigo Queirós -
Camera Department
Afonso Marmelo
Maria Inês Rodrigues -
Make up
Cátia Gomes
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Wardrobe
Marta Lima
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Editing
André Gil Mata
Cláudia Ribeiro
Fabiano Teixeira -
Sound editing and sound mixing
Rafael Gonçalves Cardoso
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Grading
Andreia Bertini
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Visual Effects
João Pedro Gomes
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Design
Pedro Nora
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English translation
João Ricardo Oliveira
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Cinema Batalha | Retrospetiva André Gil Mata
2023
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Internacional Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands | Competição Internacional
2023
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IndieLisboa - Festival Internacional de Cinema Independente, Portugal | Competição Nacional
2023
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Filmadrid - Festival Internacional de Cinema, Spain | Competição Internacional
2022
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Curtas Vila do Conde Festival Internacional de Cinema, Portugal | Competição Nacional
2023
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International Film Festival NEW HORIZONS | Competição Internacional
2023
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International Film Festival NEW HORIZONS, Poland | Competição Internacional
2023
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Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, Canada | Competição Internacional
2023
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Lima alterna international film festival, Peru | Competição Internacional
2023
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Caminhos do Cinema Português, Portugal | Competição Nacional | Melhor Som
2023
