The Revolution Hunter

Margarida Ręgo

It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn't belong and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country.

A Caça Revoluções is a film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.


FESTIVALS:

[2014] IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival [Portugal]
[2014] Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes [France]
[2014] Curtas Vila do Conde [Portugal]
[2014] T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival [Poland]
[2014] 30th Rencontres Cinéma de Gindou [France]
[2014] Curtas Belo Horizonte [Brazil]
[2014] Kaunas International Film Festival [Lithuania]
[2014] Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife [Brazil]
[2014] L’Alternativa Barcelona [Spain]
[2014] X Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema [Brazil]
[2014] Seville European Film Festival [Spain]
[2014] Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro [Brazil]
[2014] Pravo Ljudski Film Festival [Bosnia and Herzegovina]
[2015] Go Short [Netherlands]
[2015] Tampere Film Festival [Finland]
[2015] NexT International Film Festival [Romania]
[2015] Vienna Independent Shorts [Austria]
[2015] In the Palace International Independent Film Festival - Student's Edition (Best Experimental Film Award) [Bulgaria]
[2015] Provincetown International Film Festival [USA]
[2015] Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale - LIFFY (Best Animated Short Award)[USA]
[2016] Ciclo Fitas de Memória [Portugal]
[2016] Taiwan International Documentary Festival [Taiwan]
[2016] Mostra de Cinema Português em Macau [Macao]
[2016] Fest New Directors New Films Festival (National Award - Special Mention)  [Portugal]
[2016] Olhares do Mediterrâneo [Portugal]
[2016] Timishort Film Festival [Romania]
[2016] Ekadeshma International Short Film Festival [Nepal] 
[2017] Traverse Vidéo [France]
[2017] Shortcutz Ovar [Portugal]
[2017] Macao International Documentary Film Festival - MOIDF [Macao]
[2017] Strangloscope: Mostra Internacional de Áudio, Vídeo/Filme e Performance Experimental [Brazil]
[2017] VERZIO - Human Rights Documentary Film Festival [Hungary]
[2017] PHILM - Internationale Tagung zum Fotofilm - Kunstuniversität Linz [Austria]
[2017] PHILM - Internationale Tagung zum Fotofilm - Metro Kinokulturhaus Wien [Austria]
[2017] Winter Apricots: Prilep International Film Festival [Macedonia]
[2018] Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival For Expanded Media [Germany]
[2018] Filmes na Cave [Portugal]
[2018] A Gulbenkian e o Cinema Português [Portugal]
[2021] Exibição na Casa Manoel de Oliveira - Serralves [Portugal]
[2021] Filmfest Dresden [Germany]
[2022] Mostra de Primeiras Curtas - Livraria Térmita [Portugal]
[2023] Vienna Shorts [Austria]

 

Documentary, Animation, Fiction
2014, Portugal, UK, 11’ 

Script: Margarida Rêgo
Cinematography: Margarida Rêgo 
Sound: Mike Wyeld 
Editing: Margarida Rêgo 
Production: Margarida Rêgo
Co-production: Royal College of Art 

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