Short film shot in Porto wins an award in Canada

The encounter of Gonçalo, a man who, on a rainy night, leaves home on his motorbike to deliver a letter to someone who abandoned him, and Diana, the woman who tells him to watch the road, when an accident is about to happen, is the plot of “Luz de Presença”, the short film shot in Porto that earned Diogo Costa Amarante the Silver Wolf at the Montreal Festival of New Cinema, in Canada,

The film premiered in March in the Berlinale (Berlin’s cinema Festival) and is the result of a real encounter of the director’s, after moving to Porto.

The director told Lusa “When I got here, I rented a house in a neighbourhood called Fontinha”. That’s where he met Diana Neves Silva, who he encountered every night when he was looking for a place to park his motorcycle. She was his inspiration for “Luz de Presença”.

Diogo Costa Amarante says “Diana was, in fact, someone I loved to encounter every night when I got home, I realised that many people who live there see her as a neighborhood guardian”.

Jorge Quintela is responsible for the film’s cinematography, it includes the participation of Diana Neves Silva, João Castro, Gustavo Sumpta e Luís Miguel Cintra, and is promoted and distributed by Agência da Curta Metragem.

Currently, Diogo Costa Amarante, who received the Golden Bear in Berlinale 2017 with “Cidade Pequena”, is working on his first feature film, also shot in Porto, with Filmaporto’s support.