CREDITS
Directed by:
Rui Simões
Screenplay:
Rui Simões
Cinematography:
Gonçalo Covacich, Laurent Simões,
Jacinta Barros, Rui Simões
Soundtrack:
Gabriel Gomes, Luis Saraiva
Editing:
Francisco Costa
Title Sequence:
Luis M. Bernardo
Executive Producer:
Jacinta Barros
Production:
Real Ficção
SYNOPSIS
In 1999, Portugal celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, which ended 48 years of dictatorship and fascism. On April 24, the Portuguese theater company O Bando staged Madrugada, a memory-performance of those 48 years of darkness and the 25 that followed. Rui Simões, using footage from that show along with other material he collected, directed the documentary Dawns.
FUNDING
FESTIVALS
• FIPA 1999
• Ambiente '99
• Portuguese Video Showcase 1999
• Portuguese Documentary Showcase at the Portugal Pavilion, Hannover World Expo 2000
• Avante Video Showcase 2000
• International Art Film Festival Trencianske Teplice 2000, Bratislava
• VIII Caminhos do Cinema Português 2001
• E-PHOS – International Festival of Film and New Media on Art 2001
• III Certamen de Cine Y Documental del Mediterrâneo 2001
• 15th Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival 2001
• IndieKINO – 2nd Online International Film Festival 2001
• 5th International Panorama of Thessaloniki 2003
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AWARDS
• Best Documentary at OVARVIDEO’99 - Ovar
• Grand Prize at Festivídeo 2000 - Porto
• Best Documentary, "Culture, History, and Portuguese Tradition" category, at the 3rd Video-Cinematographic Competition
• Massimo Troisi European Award 2000 - Tirrenia
• Best Documentary at the 6th Tebessa International Film and Video Festival 2001
