Licínio Azevedo

Licínio Silveira Azevedo is a Brazilian–Mozambican journalist, film producer, screenwriter, and film director of award-winning documentaries and feature films.

Biography

Born in Porto Alegre in 1951, journalist Azevedo left Brazil during the military dictatorship there for post-revolutionary Portugal in 1976, continuing to Guinea-Bissau where he trained journalists. He interviewed members of the liberation movement PAIGC on their struggle against Portugal and published the results with Da Paz Rodrigues in their book Diário da libertação : a Guiné-Bissau da nova África. Living in Mozambique since the 1970s, he reported on Frelimo's struggle in Relatos do povo armado.
At the Maputo Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique, Azevedo worked with film directors Ruy Guerra and Jean-Luc Godard. Azevedo became one of the founders of the Mozambican film production company Ébano Multimédia, and director and producer of various feature films and documentaries. His first medium-length fiction film The Great Bazaar and other films were presented at many film festivals, such as the Fribourg International Film Festival. His documentaries and drama feature films obtained seven prizes and three award nominations at film festivals.

Books by Avezedo

Avezedo published a number of books in Portuguese, such as:
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Filmography

Azevedo's films include:

Year	Film	Genre	Role	Duration
1985	O Tempo dos Leopardos by Zdravko Velimirovic	War drama feature	Co-writer	95 m
1988	A Colheita Do Diabo	Feature	Director with Brigitte Bagnol	54 m
1990	Marracuene	Documentary	Director	43 m
1992	Adeus RDA	Docufiction	Director	26 m
1994	A Árvore dos Antepassados	Drama feature	Director	50 m
1996	The Water War	Documentary	Director, co-writer	73 m
1997	Tchuma Tchato	Documentary	Director	56 m
1998	Massassane	Documentary	Director	46 m
1999	A Última Prostituta	Drama fiction	Director	48 m
2000	Histórias Comunitárias	Documentary series	Director and screenwriter with Orlando Mesquita	6 x 26 m
2001	A Ponte	Documentary	Director	52 m
2002	Eclipse	Short drama documentary	Producer	25 m
2003	Disobedience	Drama feature	Director, screenwriter	92 m
2003	Mãos de Barro	Documentary	Screenwriter	50 m
2005	The Demining Camp	Documentary	Director, screenwriter, coproducer	60 m
2006	The Great Bazaar	Drama feature	Director, screenwriter	56 m
2007	Night Lodgers	Documentary	Director, screenwriter, producer	52 or 53 m
2010	A Ilha dos Espíritos	Documentary	Director, screenwriter	90 m
2011	Crônicas de Moçambique by Margarida Cardoso	Documentary portrait	Interviewee	88 m
2012	Virgin Margarida	Drama feature	Director, co-writer	90 m
2016	The Train of Salt and Sugar	Drama feature	Director, screenwriter, producer	93 m
2021	Nhinguitimo	Short, drama	Director	23 m

Awards

Azevedo's films obtained seven prizes and three nominations, including:

Film	Festival	Award
Desobediência	Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming	2003 Silver FIPA Fiction
Acampamento de Desminagem	CinePort	2005 Andorinha Digital Award Best Documentary
Hóspedes da Noite	Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming	2008 Golden FIPA Reports and Social Issues
Virgem Margarida	Amiens International Film Festival	2012 Audience Award Best Film, 2012 SIGNIS Award – Special Mention
Comboio de Sal e Açúcar	Cairo International Film Festival	2016 Silver Pyramid Best Director
Comboio de Sal e Açúcar''	Carthage Film Festival	2017 Tanit d'or Narrative Feature Film

Secondary literature

Videos

. Video duration 1m 48s, trailer for Virgin Margarida. Uploader KINA TV, 2013.
. Video duration 1m 59s, trailer for The Train of Salt and Sugar. Uploader Joburg Film Festival, 2016.
. Video duration 1h 28m 15s, complete movie The Train of Salt and Sugar. Uploader Contas Que Contam Historias, 2021.
. Video duration 56m 25s, the complete The Great Bazaar recorded out of focus at a screening with subtitles in Portuguese. Uploader José Rivair Macedo, 2020.
. Video duration 21m 49s. Uploader Gloom Channel, Official, 2020. Interview with filmmaker Licínio Azevedo. In Portuguese.