Sara Gouveia

Réalisatrice et photographe portugaise.

Parfois créditée sus le nom de
Sara CF DE GOUVEIA
Sara Christina Ferreira de Gouveia

Née à Lisbonne, Sara CF de Gouveia est une cinéaste et photographe plusieurs fois primée. Son long métrage documentaire, Mama Goema (2011), a remporté le prix du public au Festival du film Tri continental et a été présenté dans des festivals du monde entier. Ses autres films incluent le court métrage primé Scarlet Days (2013) ; NGIYAPHILA: Spiritualité et sexualité (2016), un court métrage pour Steps for the Future, lancé à la conférence sur le sida de Durban; Lonmin: Put your House in Order et Hunted for Their Body Parts (tous deux en 2016) pour Amnesty International. Elle a réalisé aussi The Sound of Masks (2018) et Mother to Mother (2020). Elle vit à Cape Town, Afrique du Sud.

FILMOGRAPHIE (extraits)
2011 : Mama Goema
2013 : Scarlet Days
2016 : NGIYAPHILA: Spiritualité et sexualité
2018 : The Sound of Masks
2020 : Mother to Mother

Source :
www.festivalmarrakech.info/personnalite/sara-cf-de-gouveia/

Photographer and videographer

She is sometimes credited as
Sara CF DE GOUVEIA
Sara Christina Ferreira de Gouveia

Photographer and videographer Sara Gouveia (Portugal) has a MA in photography from the University of Bolton (England) and Dalian University (China). Her work has been published and exhibited internationally. She is part of the Cape Town-based audiovisual performance-art project Darkroom Collective.

Sara Gouveia is an award-winning filmmaker. She has worked as a writer, director and cinematographer in feature and short documentaries, commercials, online campaigns and music videos.

Sara's first feature-length documentary "The Sound of Masks", set in Mozambique, had its World Premiere at IDFA 2018 and was officially selected for Hot Docs 2019, New York African Film Festival, the Durban International Film Festival and DocLisboa. The film received the award for Best Feature Documentary at the Plateau International Film Festival 2019 as well as the 14th SAFTA Awards 2020 for Best Achievement in Cinematography in a Documentary.

Sara's documentary "Mother to Mother" premiered during the 2020 Encounters South African International Documentary Festival where it received the second prize in the Adiaha Award for Best Documentary Film and it has been broadcast on Showmax. Sara is in post-production with the short documentary "Like Water" and in development with "The House Is Burning".

Source:
http://www.lionfishproductions.co.za/sara-cf-gouveia
http://archives.encounters.co.za/backup09/2011/welcome-2011/2011-filmmakers-biographies/index.html