Alberto Seixas Santos
| Alberto Seixas Santos | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Alberto Jorge Seixas dos Santos 20 March 1936 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 10 December 2016 (aged 80) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1967-2012 |
Alberto Jorge Seixas dos Santos (20 March 1936 – 10 December 2016) was a Portuguese film director.
Seixas Santos was born on 20 March 1936 in Lisbon, Portugal. Studied Historical-philosophical Sciences in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. In 1958, he started to work as a film critic. Studied in Paris, at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in 1962 and, in the next year, at the London Film School.
Seixas Santos, who belongs to a generation of film club lovers, is part of the cinematic movement called Novo Cinema (New Cinema) and started to shoot documentaries - A Arte e o Ofício de Ourives and Indústria Cervejeira em Portugal (1968). In 1970, he was one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Center.
Brandos Costumes, his first feature-film, shot between 1972 and 1975 and written together with the writers Luísa Neto Jorge and Nuno Júdice, draws a line between everyday life of a medium bourgeoisie family and the path of the regime of the military coup of the 28 May 1926. This film was selected to the official competition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Seixas Santos was one of the directors of As Armas e o Povo (1975), directed by a group of film-makers, which portraits the week between the 25 April and the 1 May, 1974. Following the same political line, sign another collective film A Lei da Terra (1976), shown in the Leipzig Film Festival. During the same year, was nominated the president of the Portuguese Film Institute. He was one of the founders of Grupo Zero, an organization which had illustrious members such as João César Monteiro, Jorge Silva Melo, Ricardo Costa, Margarida Gil, Solveig Nordlund and the cinematographer Acácio de Almeida.
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