Raquel Freire (born 22 June 1973, in
Porto
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) is a Portuguese
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
,
screenwriter
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and
novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...
.
Career
In 2014, she released the film ''Transiberic Love'' which is a love story set in modern times showing how one can be an activist within globalised social media and still have some integrity.
In 2013 she published the book Trans Iberic Love, which in 2020 was one of the titles chosen to be part of Sara Barros Leitão's reading project "Heróides - Clube do Livro Feminista."
In 2020 she participated in the first edition of Queer Fest, in Lisbon, in the discussion table "Queer As Intersectionality."
Raquel's films can be found on the streaming platform MUBI.
Works
Films
*''Rio Vermelho''
*''
Rasganço
''Rasganço'' is a 2001 Portuguese drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified wi ...
'' (2001)
*''Veneno Cura'' (2008)
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]
Novel
*''Trans Iberic Love'' (2013)[
]
References
External links
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21st-century Portuguese women writers
21st-century Portuguese novelists
1973 births
Living people
People from Porto
Portuguese women film directors
Portuguese women novelists
Women screenwriters
21st-century screenwriters
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