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PROJECTS

work in progress

PERFORMING ARTS

Caxias' Nights

Two women who lived intensely during the dictatorship. Leninha, the most feared and powerful female figure in the Portuguese political police: the PIDE; and one of the victims who suffered most at the hands of this terrible agent. Based on the life of a disturbing figure: the woman who rose highest in the PIDE hierarchy, still unknown to most Portuguese people today.

Salta para o Saco

João and Ludovina are a young couple whose love is put to the test through various adventures. Saint Peter chooses them to try to instruct the angels about the realities of life. Throughout the story, Saint Peter himself appears disguised to the two young people and in one of these disguises offers a special bag to João, testing his courage and bravery. But will the love of Soldier João and Young Ludovina withstand the war, the heat, the cold, the flies and, above all, the distance?…

Letters from Viana: Guerra Junqueiro

In Viana do Castelo, Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro married, lived and worked between 1879 and 1890; he was Secretary General of the Civil Government of Viana do Castelo; he wrote The Tear; The Little Moleirinha; The Hunter Simão; he corresponded with Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão; he was a friend of Luis Augusto de Oliveira and António Feijó. The rest is contained in the Letters from Viana: Guerra Junqueiro.