Antonio Santa Maria
Filmmaker
Screenwriter, Musician, Student, Singer and Actor
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
March 2022
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About Antonio
Antonio Santa Maria is a scriptwriter, an actor and a film director.
Grown up in Cape Verde Islands, he attended in 2001 an university course in Cinema & Multimedia at the ULHT in Lisbon, Portugal.
After the highs and lows during the period of studies, he decided to quit and started to produce and direct along with a friend a documentary about the lives of the young cape Verdean university students in Lisbon.
Despite the fact that the documentary took some years to get finished it was rewarding experience. Having hands on practice allowed him to experience different jobs in the filmmaking process since he wrote, directed, shot and edited the film as well as dealt with the marketing aspects of the film.
The documentary was screened in the first Film Festival in Praia, capital of Cape Verde Island and was presented afterwards in many high schools.
In 2009, he started a three months internship period on the Cape Verdean National Television station and ended up being hired as a news director and a news editor in that TV station.
After two years of experience working with journalists in the editing room and directing news and entertaining shows he decided to improve his skills in filmmaking and enrolled in 2013 in the One year Filmmaking programme at the New York Film Academy in New York City.
In 2016 he won the fourth prize with his video in a competition sponsored by a Beverage company. The fourth prize was created especially to reward his video.
In search for cultural and spiritual experiences, he started in 2018 to travel around the European countries.
He finally settled down in Switzerland in 2020.
After trying intuitive painting, he started the studies in lyric singing, jazz singing and classical violin in the Music Conservatory in the city of Neuchâtel.
Being a victim of injustice in the swiss society since his arrival, he created in January 2022, Voix Immigrant (Immigrant Voice), an informal group which the main goal is to give voice to the immigrants in the world.
Currently he's raising funds to produce a documentary about the events that occurred in his that led him to create this NGO.
Unique traits: Explorer of the theme of Love in all the film genres.
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I hate you Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A single middle woman dealing with her depression faces the heartbreaking notice that the long awaited visit of her daughter won't happen.
Credits
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The Last Dream (
2015 )
Film (short) Producer, Screen writer, Director With the help of a therapist, an afflicted woman unveils the meaning of her dreams and makes the first step towards her liberation. -
The Betrayal Case (
2014 )
Film (short) Producer, Screen Writer, Director A detective who was dumped by his girlfriend recovers his life after accepting to investigate a case of murder. -
Redefinições (
2006 - 2013 )
Documentary Producer, Director, Cinematographer The life of the cape verdean university students in Lisbon, Portugal, the financial struggle, the family pressure overseas and the discrimination in the Portuguese society. -
APONTE - Mental Health Awareness Association (
2009 - 2011 )
Documentary (Short) Executive Producer, Screen Writer, Director From the creation of the Association until 2009. The initiative of a group of doctors and civilians looking to help the mental disorder people and their family; the increase of the number of the volunteers in the organization along the year; the various activities of the Association. -
Mental Health History in Cape Verde (
2009 - 2011 )
Documentary (Short) Executive Producer, Screen Writer, Director The way the people who suffered from mental disorder were treated during the Portuguese empire; the first psychiatrists in the islands and the political challenges the capverdean society is facing in order to erase stigmatization of the mental disordered people.
Awards
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4th Prize Trindade Contest, Cape Verde Islands
(2012)
Education
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New York Film Academy
(2013-2014) -
Universidade Lusofona
(2001-2005)
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