THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO / A ÚLTIMA VEZ QUE VI MACAU
A feature film by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
DOC·FIC, HD / Portugal – France / 2012 / 82’ / HD (DCP) / 16:9 colour
SYNOPSIS
Thirty years later I’m on my way to Macao where I haven’t been since I was a child. I got an e-mail, in Lisbon, from Candy, a friend I hadn’t heard from in ages. She told me that she had been involved yet again with the wrong men and asked me to go to Macao where “strange and scary things” were happening. Tired, after a long flight, I’m approaching Macao aboard the jetfoil which will take me back to the happiest time in my life.
In memoriam Jane Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011)
CREDITS
Directors: João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
Producer: João Figueiras, Blackmaria Produção Audiovisual
Script: João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
Cinematography: Rui Poças
Editing: Raphaél Lefévre, João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Sound: Nuno Carvalho
Cast: Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues
Maria João Guerra da Mata, Lydie Bárbara, Raphaél Lefévre, Nuno Carvalho
Voices: Hoi Kem Yuen Foo, Rita Chan, Janete Chan, Chan Yuen Tong, Wong Chung Ko, Chung Fok Tin, Eduardo Chan, Mingyu Wu, Lian Wu
Financed by: Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual (ICA) / Ministério da Cultura, RTP
Blackmaria and Epicentre Films / CNC co-production
Commercially released in Switzerland, Portugal and the USA in 2013
AWARDS
2014 Sophia Prize for Best Film, Portugal
2014 Sophia Prize for Best Script, Portugal
2014 Sophia Prize for Best Cinematography, Portugal
Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland – Honorable Mention
Torino Film Festival, Italy – Best Documentary
Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile – Critics Prize
FILM FESTIVALS
2012
New York IFF, USA – Competition
Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile
Busan International Film Festival, Coreia do Sul
Ghent Film Festival, Belgium
Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canadá
Slovak Queer Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
VIENNALE – Vienna International Film Festival, Áustria
Seville European Film Festival, Spain – Competition
CHP:DOX, Copenhaga, Denmark – Competition
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Grécia
Cali International Film Festival, Colômbia
Cork Film festival, Ireland
Torino Film Festival – competition
Filmmaker Festival, Milano, Italy – Competition
2013
Göteborg IFF, Sweden
Berlinale – European Film Market, Germany (industry screening)
Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Mexico
FICUNAM – UNAM INT. FILM FESTIVAL, México
Macau Literary Festival, Hong Kong
Febiofest Prague, Czech Republic
Hong Kong Film Festival
Retrospective of Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Tokyo, Japan
Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey
Bafici Int. Film Festival, Argentina – Competition
Barcelona International Auteur Film Festival, Spain – Competition
Lima Independiente Festival de Cine, Perú
Edinburgh Film Festival, UK
Filmfest München, Germany
East End Film Festival, London, UK
Jerusalem International Film festival, Israel
New Horizons IFF, Poland
Melbourne Film festival, Australia
Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania
