The 6th Madeira Film Festival (MFF) has an ambitious program with national premieres, celebrities, and new partnerships with this international film festivals.
The actress Marina Albuquerque is one of the confirmed presences for the MFF'17 to present the film of the director Edgar Pêra, "Delirium in Las Vedras", on April 23rd at 6.30 pm, at the Teatro Baltazar Dias. For two decades this actress is one of the best known faces of comedy in Portugal. Born in Lisbon, she was notable for her participation in several television series and soap operas, such as "Morangos com Açúcar", "Ana e os Sete", "Malucos do Riso" and more recently in the "A Única Mulher".
In the cinema she collaborated with Edgar Pêra in several films "The Conspiracy of the Thousand Tympanos", "Virados do Avesso" and "Sudwestern and The Baron". She also worked with the directors Luis Galvão Teles, Michael Sturminger, Inês Oliveira, Jeanne Waltz, Raoul Ruiz, José Abreu, Leão Lopes and Manuel Mozos.
The film "Delírio en Las Vedras" premiered in February of this year, after an anthesis in Torres Vedras and after two years of shooting and post-production, and arrives in Madeira as part of the 6th edition of the Madeira Film Festival.
For the director, Edgar Pêra, "Delirium in Las Vedras is a 3D film, being at the same time fiction and documentary, and joining the spontaneity of the masked to a narrative thread associated with portuguese comedy." The film was shot for six days in the middle of the Carnival of 2015, plus the night of the "burial of the bone" and its experiences. Briefly, this film touches on "a group of reporters inspired by the different styles of television channels, From the tacky channels to the culturalists, from radicals to musicals, from radials to 3D channels, invades the Torres Vedras Carnival, its aim is to guarantee the maximum audience, and they are willing to do everything for it. To be able to blend in with the crowd, thus breaking all barriers and becoming part of the reality of Carnival. "
The protagonist of the film is Nuno Melo, this being the last film of his career as an actor, where he plays two roles, "it's Ermelindo, the reporter for an institutional channel, and Ermelinda, the matrafona by force. That this is an issue that does not interest the elites"clarifies the director. The actor's monologues also have an "autobiographical and humorous character" characteristic of the actor, he added. "We were pointing the camera anywhere and we always had reasons to be interested," said the filmmaker, adding that many of the interviewees are "matrafonas", typical masks in which men dress as women but affirm male sexuality. For Edgar Pêra, the film, supported by the municipality, intends "to be also a vehicle for the promotion of the carnival of Torres Vedras, which attracts about 350 thousand visitors during the five days." The 80-minute film was at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and joins the nearly 40 films already made by the filmmaker. In it, actors playing the characters are Nuno Melo, Marina Albuquerque, José Raposo, Sofia Ribeiro, Albano Jerónimo, José de Pina, Rui Melo, Miguel Borges, Marco Paiva, Jorge Prendas, Miguel Pereira, Miguel Partidário, João Sodré, Marlise Gaspar and the masked torrienses.
For the first time the number of film industry participants increased without the festival having to offer the flights, or accommodation. A positive indication that more people interested in these areas are choosing the week of the festival to get to know the island of Madeira and be live with directors, actors and producers in a week full of films, talks, talks with celebrities and a social program International level.
