Ricardo Leite | Portugal, 2022, 82'
Edila Gaitonde, born in the Azores, was the first Portuguese woman to marry a Goan of Indian origin during the Salazar dictatorship. Her husband was Pundalik Gaitonde, a freedom fighter who fought for Goa’s independence from Portugal. Edila was a fighter, piano teacher, radio presenter, documentary maker. She left us in 2021 at the age of 100, but it is through her that we will learn stories about an unknown Goa and a forgotten Portugal based on her accounts, photographs and dozens of previously unseen super 8mm films.
Ricardo Leite (1978) is a screenwriter and director, in addition to being one of the leading specialists in cinematographic film laboratory processes in Portugal. He studied cine-video and theater at Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2002). Since 2003, Ricardo Leite has coordinated dozens of cinema workshops all over the world: Cape Verde, Brazil, Canada, the United States and many European countries. His focus on biodegradable photographic chemistry processes stands out, which led him to write several articles. He was one of the founding partners of Átomo47, the only cinema laboratory (photosensitive) operating in Portugal. He has dedicated himself to the development and writing of several cinematographic projects, - documentary and experimental -, which were selected and developed in several Film Forums, among them, the Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin Film Festival (2008) and the Arché program at the Festival Porto Post Doc and Doc Lisboa (2017). LUCEFECE is his first feature film.
