Laura Gonçalves won the Meeting Point Award for International Short Film at the 67th edition. She returns to the SEMINCI co-directing the winning short film at the Annecy Festival, using the sea and urban Algarve as the backdrop, we follow a complete life cycle of a special shellfish called percebes, the goose barnacle. In a journey through different contexts that allow us to better understand this Portuguese region and its inhabitants.
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
Alexandra Ramires. In 2010 completes the Painting degree in Fine Arts in Lisbon. Her first contact with animation cinema was in 2009 in the production company Sardinha em Lata. In 2013 moves to Porto to work in the animation studios of the production company Bando à Parte where she continued to develop technical and artistic work for other authors films. Founding member of the BAP Cooperative where she currently develops individual and collective work. Água Mole (2017) is her first film, co-directed with Laura Gonçalves. Elo is her debut as a solo director.Laura Gonçalves. In 2009 finishes her course at Fine Arts in Lisbon. After working in several animation films as inbetweener and art finalist, applies to the Animation MA at Arts University Bournemouth where she directs her first animation short Three Weeks in December. In 2013 moves to Porto, where she works in BAP as an animator and painter, for several productions of Bando Aparte. In 2016 she co-directs with Alexandra Ramires (Xá), the animation short Drop by Drop. In 2022 premieres her film The Garbage Man. In 2024 premieres her most recent film co-directed with Alexandra Ramires Percebes, produced by BAP Animation Studio, a cooperative of which she is one of the founding members.
DIRECTOR
Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
SCREENPLAY
Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires, Regina Guimarães
ANIMATION
Inês Teixeira, Joana Teixeira, Leonor Pacheco, Laura Equi, Carolina Bonzinho, Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
SOUND
Bernardo Bento, Vasco Carvalho
MUSIC
Nicolas Tricot
PRODUCTION
David Doutel, Vasco Sá, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago
PRODUCTION COMPANY
BAP - Animation Studios, Ikki Films
VOCES
João Helder da Luz, João Duarte, Henrique, Marisa Gomes, Marta Luz, Pedro Omar, Rita Grifo, Samuel Malaquias