Marco Martins

Marco Martins (born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese film director, best known for his 2005 film Alice, which premiered at Cannes and won the Best Picture Award at the Directors' Fortnight. In 1994 Marco Martins graduated from Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema), and soon afterwards undertook an apprenticeship with Wim Wenders, Manoel de Oliveira and Bertrand Tavernier. For two years following, he worked as assistant director to João Canijo, a fellow Portuguese director. During this period, his short films "Mergulho no Ano Novo" and 'No Caminho Para a Escola received critical acclaim, the former winning Best Short Film Award at the International Short Films Festival of Vila do Conde, and the latter taking Best Short Film and Best Director Awards at the VII Festival Ibérico de Cinema de Badajoz as well as the Eixo Atlântico Award at the Festival de Ourense He began shooting advertisements in the late 90's and in 2002 started his own production company, "Ministério dos Filmes", which has received multiple international awards. In 2005, his first feature film, Alice, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and received a number of international awards and made the long list for the Academy Awards Foreign Language Film prize. His 2006 short film was a contender at the "Corto Cortissimo" competition on the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, an international competition of 35mm short films. In 2009, he produced his second film, How to Draw a Perfect Circle, and in 2016 directed São Jorge. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Martins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures

October 2019, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (UK). Three months before Brexit. Hundreds of Portuguese migrant workers pour into town, seeking work at the local turkey factories. Tânia (The Mother of the Portuguese), a former worker in these poultry plants, is now married to an English hotel owner. She is the perfect facilitator for the Portuguese workers, but dreams of becoming a British citizen and leaving this dirty business behind by transforming her husband’s derelict hotels into refurbished senior citizens homes.

Release Date:2022-09-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Um Corpo que Dança - Ballet Gulbenkian 1965-2005

UM CORPO DE DANÇA is a proposal for the history of the body, showed through the path of the biggest Portuguese dance company of the 20th century. The documentary follows the rise of dance in Portugal along with the country’s political, economic and sociocultural ongoings as background. It is the story of a transforming body that frees itself from a fascist dictatorship, and of a changing society that opens itself to the world. From unreleased archive images and interviews with several creators and dancers, we follow the path of an extraordinary dance company through the movements and words of its protagonists, from creation in the early 1960s to its extinction in 2005.

Release Date:2022-06-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Pink Men

The meetings between Renato Turnes and nine gay gentlemen who share their memories with him. The first desires, the awakening of sexuality, the boiling of gay youth in a country under the military dictatorship, the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, the confrontation of losses and stigma, the party as a territory of resistance. Reflections on the passage of time and the aging of gay men in Brazil

Release Date:2020-11-11

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Nero Artista

Release Date:2020-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Aquela Mistura

Release Date:2019-01-01

Department:Camera

Job:Camera Operator

Sara

Sara is a portuguese actress who only works in film and is known for her ability to cry on cue. But one day her eyes dry up just like her interest in cinema. The solution? Soap operas.

Release Date:2018-10-07

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:6

Severo Severino

Release Date:2018-02-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Saint George

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Release Date:2017-03-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:23

Túlio Piva - Pandeiro de Prata

The film portrays the life and work of the composer and samba gaucho Túlio Piva. A native of Santiago do Boqueirão, Túlio consolidated his musical career in Porto Alegre. Owner of a very own beat on the guitar, lived more than 50 years of samba, owned the bar "Gente da Noite", where he composed much of his work and recorded four LPs.

Release Date:2015-12-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Twenty-One-Twelve The Day the World Didn't End

Release Date:2013-10-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Nenhum Nome

After having suffered a serious car accident in which his 6 month pregnant wife is killed, X, a 35 year old man, is admitted in an intensive care unit. K, a 30 year old nurse, will help X during his rehabilitation. K is also 6 months pregnant. This curious detail makes their apparent impersonal relationship stronger.

Release Date:2011-05-04

Department:Crew

Job:Script

Vote Count:1

Traces of a Diary

Photography is diary... diary is life... in the end, the world and photography always end up alone, with each other.

Release Date:2011-01-28

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Character:Self

Insert

The film INSERT was conceived has part of MEMOGRAMA by Filipa César, an installation that approaches the history of Castro Marim, a village in the southeast of Portugal, known for salt production and as a location for banishment and forced labour. The translation of sin into salt. The film INSERT creates staged images on the landscape of this place and offers a set for the announcement of a forbidden encounter.

Release Date:2010-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

Release Date:2009-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:23

Alice

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

Release Date:2005-09-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:32

Lisbon Story

Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

Release Date:1994-12-16

Department:Production

Job:Production Assistant

Vote Count:117

Mergulho no Ano Novo

Release Date:1993-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director