Directing
Nuno Escudeiro
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5 titles
Nuno Escudeiro (1986, Portugal) is an Italy-based filmmaker and media artist with an MA in Media Studies from the University of Aveiro, Portugal and a specialization in Documentary Film Directing from ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Italy. His work focuses on politicized landscapes and the exploration of the idiosyncrasies of territories and populations affected by transformative events such as migration and climate change. His debut feature documentary The Valley (2019) received the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs Toronto and the Reporters Sans Frontières Award at FIGRA and was screened internationally in collaboration with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Arte, …
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NRAs thousands of migrants attempt to cross the French-Italian border on foot through treacherous mountain routes, the state cracks down on the local communities that come to their aid in this revealing look at an unfolding human rights crisis.
The Valley
2019
NRAs winter takes over the European Arctic, it turns into an unrecognizable place, cold and dark. Throughout the polar night, the north feels removed from all human life, uninhabitable, just like the moon. And yet, it is home to people born in faraway lands. What has brought them here? What keeps them here, immersed in darkness?
Moon Europa
2017
NRFrom a human point of view, a mountain is a barrier and a place of passage. Mountains have always been natural frontiers between territories. Nuno Escudeiro collected stories in Briançon, in the French High Alps, and in the Susa Valley, in the western part of Piedmont, and to these he added home movies from the Superottimisti Archivo di Film di Famiglia.
Death of a Mountain
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La Roya: la loi de la vallée
2019
Behind the camera
NRAs thousands of migrants attempt to cross the French-Italian border on foot through treacherous mountain routes, the state cracks down on the local communities that come to their aid in this revealing look at an unfolding human rights crisis.
The Valley
2019
NRAs winter takes over the European Arctic, it turns into an unrecognizable place, cold and dark. Throughout the polar night, the north feels removed from all human life, uninhabitable, just like the moon. And yet, it is home to people born in faraway lands. What has brought them here? What keeps them here, immersed in darkness?
Moon Europa
2017
NRFrom a human point of view, a mountain is a barrier and a place of passage. Mountains have always been natural frontiers between territories. Nuno Escudeiro collected stories in Briançon, in the French High Alps, and in the Susa Valley, in the western part of Piedmont, and to these he added home movies from the Superottimisti Archivo di Film di Famiglia.
Death of a Mountain
2023
NRFrom a human point of view, a mountain is a barrier and a place of passage. Mountains have always been natural frontiers between territories. Nuno Escudeiro collected stories in Briançon, in the French High Alps, and in the Susa Valley, in the western part of Piedmont, and to these he added home movies from the Superottimisti Archivo di Film di Famiglia.
Death of a Mountain
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La Roya: la loi de la vallée
2019