Nuno Alves, Filipe Barreiro | Portugal, 2023, 65'
The Trilogy of Valleys documentary is a film recorded between January and September 2022, during the development of the homonymous project, in the municipality of Monção (Northern Portugal). Initially created to be presented during the Trilogia dos Vales show, in a film-concert format with live music, the documentary begins to the rhythm of local songs, followed by the aged voice of one of the inhabitants, who will tell us his history. As more images of the 3 Monção valleys are revealed, we are taken on a journey through testimonies of the daily lives of other people who inhabit this territory. What is it like to live in rural areas? What has changed? What costumes did they keep? Trilogia dos Vales provides the answers in an ode to the simplicity of rural life, while at the same time drawing a portrait of populations living in isolated territories in Portugal. In addition to the testimonies, the images are accompanied by the music played and recorded live in the first presentation of the film-concert.
Nuno Alves: Cultural programmer since 1993, founder of several cultural projects such as Festival de Paredes de Coura, Space Festival, Space Ensemble, Canal180, 180 Creative Camp, Escola do Rock Paredes de Coura, Vira Fest and Ciclo de Pollinação Musical de Paredes de Coura . Programming director of Canal180, a cable television channel dedicated to Culture, Arts and Creativity between 2010 and 2016. Artistic and programming director of numerous events, such as 180 Creative Camp, Pollination Cycle of Paredes de Coura, as well as several shows from the Space Ensemble such as "Filmes da Terra Do Santa Claus", "Trilogy of the Valleys", "Minho Coura Lima", "Pirates and Mermaids, Oysters and Whales", among many others. He was programming director and producer for television series such as "180 ID", "180 Director ID", "Analógico Humano Digital", "I Like", etc., as well as for films, including "Driving Without License" (film produced in an "open source" process by João Diogo Marques) and "Abrantes" (made by Miguel Trudu).
Born in 1998, in Ponte de Lima. He began his academic career in 2017 at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD.CR), in Caldas da Rainha, where he graduated in Sound and Image, having followed the Cinevideo branch. Since he started his journey in the audiovisual field, he has mostly worked on a freelance basis, as Director and Director of Photography for some projects, from short fiction films to video clips. He worked in the production of audiovisual content at Space Ensemble, where he developed, alongside Nuno Alves, films such as "Trilogia dos Vales" and "Minho, Coura, Lima".
