Eduardo Geada

Like other young Portuguese cinephiles from his generation, Eduardo Geada plunged in the world of cinema taking active part at the important film club movement of the sixties, an open and lively place where he assimilated techniques, theories and a vivid view of film history. Between 1968 and 1976 he worked as a film critic for several Portuguese magazines and newspapers : Seara Nova, Vertice, Vida Mundial, A Capital, Republica and Expresso. He was the author and presenter of the radio programme Moviola (1985/86), on Antena 1, dedicated to film sound-tracks. In 1978, as a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship winner, he finished his specialization in Film Studies at the Slade School of Fine Arts (London College University). Geada completed his Master of Arts in Media and Communication at the Universidade Nova Lisboa (New University of Lisbon, 1985). He got a Phd in Film and History of the Media(1997). He made a famous TV show on cinema and culture. Between the end of the sixties and the eighties, Geada gave an important contribution to film criticism, submitting his ideas on cinema to enlarged discussion, and publishing several books. Eduardo Geada was a professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon (Theatre and Film School) from 1978 to 2004 and also at the Escola Superior de Comunicacao Social (Media and Communication College) from 2004 to 2010. His first film, Sofia e a Educacao Sexual (1973), was one of the last to be censored by the old regime and shown only after the April 1974 Revolution. One of his first films made for television was O Funeral do Patrao (1975), based on a play by the Italian playwright Dario Fo. His second feature, A Santa Alianca (1977), based on a scenario by Geada himself, has the pamphlet-like structure of some other interesting post-Revolution films and was selected for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs, Cannes Film Festival. A most recent film, Passagem por Lisboa (1993), shows the memory of cinema: the film revisits Lisbon, at the beginning of the forties, with the participation of famous characters, like Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, the Duke of Windsor, Primo di Rivera and the fictitious character Victor Laszlo (from the movie Casablanca).