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Licinio Azevedo
"Licinio Azevedo"
Licinio Azevedo
Biography
Licínio Azevedo was born in Porto Alegre in Brazil, but has lived in Mozambique since the 1970s. As an independent filmmaker and one of the co-founders of production company Ebano Multimedia, he is heavily involved with Mozambique’s national film institute and has shot many documentaries. These include RICARDO RANGEL – FERRO EM BRASA (GLOWING IRON) from 2006 about Mozambique’s most famous photographer and HÓSPEDES DA NOITE (NIGHT LODGERS) in 2007 about a former luxury hotel frequented by the country’s Portuguese colonial rulers which has since become a slum. Both films were screened at Afrika Film Festival Köln. His feature film COMBOIO DE SAL E AÇUCAR (THE TRAIN OF
SALT AND SUGAR) that he will present at the anniversary festival in Cologne is the result of many years of research and a seven-week shoot in rusty train carriages along a stretch of railway in the north of the country that was fiercely fought for during the civil war in the 1980s. “This is a movie made with a lot of blood, sweat and tears, which is absolutely essential in a country like Mozambique, where there is no infrastructure”,
says Azevedo. The reward for his efforts are the enthusiastic reviews from critics who hail his “extraordinary” and “spectacular” film as “paving a new way in African cinema”.
Filmography
COMBOIO DE SAL E AÇUCAR (2016): Screenplay, Direction, Guest
Hóspedes da noite (2007): Direction
Ricardo Rangel - Ferro em brasa (2006): Direction