Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira was born on March 20th, 1946 in Benguel. He is considered to be one one of the pioneers of Angolan cinema. He got a degree in science and geophysics by Catholic University of America and in cinema by London International Film School. His films portray the era of colonialism. He is author of several documentaries, such as Um Caso Nosso (1978, Our Case), Memória de um Dia (1982, Memory Of One Day), which tells the story of the Icolo and Bengo massacre, or Agostino Neto (2000). It took more than fifteen years for his first feature film, Comboio da Cañhoca (The Train of Cañhoca, 1989) to be shown due to political reasons. In 2010, he completed Batepá, about the massacre in São Tomé. 

 

Margarida Cardoso, a Portuguese film director, was born in Tomar in 1963 and grew up in Mozambique. She studied Photography, Image and Audiovisual Communication at the António Arroio School of Arts, Lisbon. Between 1985 and 1995, she worked as an assistant director for more than 50 films in Portugal and abroad. Since 2004, she is professor of Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication at Lusofona University in Lisbon. In 1995, she started directing her own films that explore subjects which cross her personal history experiences and prominent issues in recent Portuguese history, such as, the colonial war in Africa, the revolution, and the post-colonialism years. In her filmography films as Natal 71/Christmas 71, Kuxa Kanema -The Birth of Cinema, The Murmuring Coast and Yvone Kane are to be mentioned. Her curriculum and ...