If you're a final year student at a film, audiovisual or communications school, or if you've recently finished your degree, sign up a team of three participants (director, cameraman and sound operator) and apply for the Frontal Shot - Film Residency, which will take place in Melgaço from 25 July to 3 August 2025, as part of the MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Festival.
Frontal Shot is a film residency happening in Melgaço between July 25 and August 3, 2025, alongside MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival. The purpose of this project is to contribute for an audiovisual archive about the immaterial heritage of Melgaço, to provide Espaço Memória e Fronteira with audiovisual works reflecting the history of the region, to promote documentary film and the appearance of new technical and artistic teams.
Four teams consisting of four young directors, four sound technicians and four cameramen will direct, for one week, four documentaries about local themes, yet to be proposed.
Frontal Shot's main targets are senior students on their final year attending higher education courses in Audiovisuals and Cinema or that have recently completed their education.
This film residency intended all those people willing to live through a unique cinematic experience, whose objective is to produce a documentary and to participate in the festival's activities.
The organization committee will guarantee free room and board, from July 25 until August 4, to the twelve selected candidates and will provide logistic supportfor the teams to travel to filming locations.
Participants will be selected through application analysis.
Frontal Shot is oriented by Pedro Sena Nunes, a director/tutor with a large professional and pedagogical experience. All work will be framed and supported by a production team formed by Rui Ramos and João Peixoto, and a technical team formed by Daniel Deira and Miguel Arieira, and João Gigante, assistant tutor. The general coordination is by Carlos Eduardo Viana.
Please register and apply with your team (director, sound editor and cameraman) for a grant for the film residency.
If selected, you’ll be able to enjoy a 5.000€ grant for:
Portuguese director, producer, photographer, professor, and cultural programmer. He completed a degree in Filmmaking after studying Machine Engineering. He is a co-founder of Companhia Teatro Meridional, where he was responsible for the film and audiovisual department. Between Barcelona, Lyon, Sitges, Budapest, Lisbon, and Florence, he participated in courses and workshops on film, photography, video, theater, and creative writing. He received scholarships from several institutions – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Universidade de Ciências de Lisboa, Pépenières, and Visions - Documentary European Course. He has been invited to participate in national and international conferences. He has served as a juror in photography, theater, design, dance, and film competitions and festivals, most notably the Instituto Cinema e Audiovisual (ICA). He was also a co-founder of Avanti.pt - Cinema and Audiovisual Association and Apordoc - Documentary Association. He is a member of the Portuguese Association of Filmmakers, co-artistic director of the Vo'Arte Association, and a consultant for other artistic and educational associations and projects. For the past 25 years, he has dedicated himself simultaneously to the field of pedagogy, creating and directing laboratories dedicated to creation and experimentation, both documentary and fictional. He was a visiting professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC), Forum Dança (dance), Instituto Piaget, Escola Ana Wilson, Glasgow Film and Video Workshop (GFVW), Centro Em Movimento (C.E.M.), and ETIC (School of Technologies, Creation, and Innovation). In addition to being a professor and project coordinator, he assumed responsibility for the Image and Sound Area, professional and technical education, designing courses and creating pedagogical and artistic projects with an authorial dimension. He was Creative Director of ETIC and is a pedagogical coordinator. He is a consultant in the reform of artistic education coordinated by the Ministry of Education. He is a researcher at CLEPUL - Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures and a doctoral candidate in performing arts and moving images at the University of Lisbon (UL). His latest film, "Geografia Humana" premiered.
