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The One I Keep reveals Guerra to be a pretty talented filmmaker as well.”

 

MIKE HOBAN EVENTS INSIDER

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Guerra's award-winning screendance films and AR/VR 360-degree films have been featured by film festivals, museum exhibitions, and periodicals across the U.S. and internationally, with permanent film installations in the U.S. and Portugal.

Most recently, Guerra's screendance film Ao pó voltaremos (2022) won “Best Female Director” and “Best Cinematography” at Nawada International Film Festival (India, 2022), while For you, to mentor me (2019) was awarded “Best Choreography” and “Best Narrative Dance” at SounDance Film Festival (Argentina & Spain, 2020).

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—Featured Films—

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“Elegantly composed and marked out with refined choreography, [Guerra's] stimulating work is a successful attempt to create a brilliant allegory of human condition capable of drawing the viewers to a heightened and multilayered experience.”

 

WOMENCINEMAKERS




Read the full feature (below) on Guerra's The One I Keep in this 2018 Special Edition of WomenCinemakers (Berlin, Germany).

 
 
 
 

Ao pó voltaremos

(2022 – 5 min)

Hailed as “a stunning piece, where landscape, heritage, movement, and dance merges in a poetic composition,” this striking screendance film features the 16th-century monastery ruins of Messejana, Portugal. This new film was created while working as an artist in residence with Buinho Organization.

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