Januário Afonso

Januário Afonso is a filmmaker from São Tomé and Príncipe born in 1963. His first experience in cinema was working with Austrian filmmaker Herbert Brödl on Brödl's movie Little Fruit from the Equator which was shot in São Tomé. Afonso graduated in documentary film studies in Portugal and Scotland, and obtained a law degree at São Tomé in 2016. He made feature films and documentaries on current social themes such as AIDS and domestic violence. Afonso collaborated with Angolan film director Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira on Fortunato's drama movie Batepá.

Filmography

Afonso's films include:

Year	Film	Genre	Role	Duration
2001	Imprudência, Fogo do Apagar da Vida	Drama, tragedy about AIDS	Director	75 min.
2006	O Vosso Amor, o Meu Sorriso	Drama on domestic violence against women	Director	55 min.
2007	Os que têm sida são iguais aos que não têm	Six-episode miniseries about AIDS	Director
2008	Transportador de sonhos	Documentary	Director	27 min.
2012, 2013	O Avesso do Vida	Drama on the social exclusion of elderly people	Director	46 min.

In 2015 Afonso won the Unesco Community of Portuguese Language Countries Audiovisual competition in the television fiction category with his adaptation project for the story Rosa do Riboque by Santomean writer Albertino Bragança.