Film Screening 'As Macas Azuis' (Blue Apples) at Fundacao Oriente | 3 August 2024 at 5.30 pm
03 Aug 2024 to 03 Aug 2024Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts invites you to the screening of As Maçãs Azuis (Blue Apples), a documentary by Portuguese filmmaker Ricardo Leite, at Fundação Oriente on 03 August 2024 at 5.30 pm.
As Maçãs Azuis uncovers the untold stories of Goa and Portugal, through the lens of Edila Gaitonde. A documentary filmmaker herself, Edila created amateur Super 8 films and 8mm films, which were later discovered by Ricardo Leite. Leite used portions of this found footage to create a documentary about her life.
Edila Gaitonde (1920-2020) left Faial Island in the Azores in 1943 to study piano in Lisbon, where she met her future husband, Pundalik Gaitonde (1913-1992), a physician, anticolonial activist, and writer from Ponda, Goa.
Directed by: Ricardo Leite
Cast: Edila Gaitonde
Language: Portuguese with subtitles in English
Duration: 1hr 22mins
Presented by film historian Maria do Carmo Piçarra.
The film screening is in partnership with Fundação Oriente, Delegation in India and is part of the exhibition ArQhive: Early-Modern-Contemporary Visions, which opens on 09 August 2024 at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts.
Venue: Fundação Oriente
175, Filipe Neri Xavier Road, Fontainhas,
Mala, Panaji, Goa 403001
Tel: 0832 223 0728
Limited seats | Open to all!
For more information, call us at +91 832-2421311 or email us at info@sgcfa.org
Ricardo Leite (b. 1978, São Paulo, Brazil) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary director. His passion for cinema began in childhood with a JVC Video8 camera and evolved through various film formats, including 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm. He started developing films at home in 1999 using a lomo spiral tank purchased in Ukraine and later adapted associative photography labs for cinema film formats.
In 2006, he founded Atomo47, Portugal’s first independent film lab. Concerned about the carcinogenic properties of film chemicals after his second son's birth in 2012, he began researching biodegradable and low-toxic developing processes. His films are noted for their experimental and documentary styles, with political, artistic, and anthropological themes.