In Rio de Janeiro, people from the Mangueira neighbourhood follow the television broadcast on a big screen as the juries vote on each samba school. In 2019, Mangueira took to the Sambadrome a strong, bold samba of resistance to what’s taking place in Brazil right now. The film witnesses the tension while waiting for the final score, and the great joy of people of every generation when Mangueira wins and becomes champion of the 2019 Carnival.
Teresa Villaverde
Teresa Villaverde (Lisbon, 1966), in the 80s, participated as an actress, co-author and co-director in the Theater Group of the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. She also worked as an actress and writer in film productions. In the early 90’s she began directing and writing her own films. All her films had world premieres at important festivals such as that of Cannes, Venice and Berlin. There have been retrospectives of her work in France, Italy, and Portugal. She collaborated with several universities, and in 2010 she created the production company, Alce Filmes, with the purpose of producing her own films.
