Licínio Azevedo

Licínio Silveira Azevedo (Licínio de Azevedo, Licínio Azevedo, Novo Hamburgo, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1951) is a Brazilian–Mozambican journalist, film producer, screenwriter, and film director of award-winning documentaries and feature films.

Biography
Born in Porto Alegre in 1951, journalist Azevedo left Brazil during the military dictatorship there for post-revolutionary Portugal in 1976, continuing to Guinea-Bissau where he trained journalists. He interviewed members of the liberation movement PAIGC on their struggle against Portugal and published the results with Da Paz Rodrigues in their book Diário da libertação : a Guiné-Bissau da nova África (Liberation diary: the Guinea-Bissau of the new Africa, 1977). Living in Mozambique since the 1970s, he reported on Frelimo's struggle in Relatos do povo armado (Stories from the armed people, 1983).

At the Maputo Instituto Nacional de Cinema de Moçambique (INC, National Cinema Institute of Mozambique, now Instituto Nacional de Audiovisual e Cinema de Moçambique INAC), Azevedo worked with film directors Ruy Guerra (born in Maputo, 1931) and Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022). Azevedo became one of the founders of the Mozambican film production company Ébano Multimédia, and director and producer of various feature films and documentaries. His first medium-length fiction film The Great Bazaar (O Grande Bazar) and other films were presented at many film festivals, such as the Fribourg International Film Festival. His documentaries and drama feature films obtained seven prizes and three award nominations at film festivals.

Books by Avezedo
Avezedo published a number of books in Portuguese, such as:



Filmography
Azevedo's films include:

Awards
Azevedo's films obtained seven prizes and three nominations, including:

Videos

 * . Video duration 1m 48s, trailer for Virgin Margarida. Uploader KINA TV, 2013.
 * . Video duration 1m 59s, trailer for The Train of Salt and Sugar. Uploader Joburg Film Festival, 2016.
 * . Video duration 1h 28m 15s, complete movie The Train of Salt and Sugar. Uploader Contas Que Contam Historias, 2021.
 * . Video duration 56m 25s, the complete The Great Bazaar recorded out of focus at a screening with subtitles in Portuguese. Uploader José Rivair Macedo, 2020.
 * . Video duration 21m 49s. Uploader Gloom Channel, Official, 2020. Interview with filmmaker Licínio Azevedo. In Portuguese.