{{Short description|Mozambican cinema and TV director and producer maker}} <!-- {{Portuguese name|de Cavalho|Sol}} --> {{Infobox person | name = Sol de Carvalho | image = Sol de Carvalho.jpg | caption = Sol de Carvalho at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival | birth_name = João Luís Sol de Carvalho | birth_date = 1953 | birth_place = Beira, Mozambique, Portuguese Mozambique <br />{{smaller|(present-day Maputo, Mozambique)}} | citizenship = Mozambique | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|Film director|screenwriter|producer|journalist}} | years_active = 1975–present | movement = | notable_works = movies ''Another Man's Garden'' (2007), ''Impunidades Criminosas'' (2012), and ''Mabata Bata'' (2017). | spouse = }} '''Sol de Carvalho''' (João Luís Sol de Carvalho, born 1953) is a Mozambican film director and producer.<ref name="cinemaport">{{Cite web |url=https://cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt/Pessoas/id/14417/t/sol-de-carvalho |website=cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt |access-date=18 July 2024 |language=pt |title=Sol de Carvalho. João Luis Sol de Carvalho. Nascimento: 1953 , Beira (Moçambique) |publisher=SP Autores Sociedade Portuguesa de autores }}</ref><ref name="africine">{{Cite web |url=http://www.africine.org/personne/sol-de-carvalho/8276 |website=africine.org |title=Sol de Carvalho, Réalisateur/trice, producteur/trice |access-date=25 July 2024 |publisher=Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="africanfilmny">{{Cite web |url=https://africanfilmny.org/films/mozambique-island-encounter-of-cultures/ |access-date=25 July 2024 |website=africanfilmny.org |publisher=African Film Festival New York |title=Mozambique Island: Encounter of Cultures. Details. About the Directors. Sol de Carvalho.}}</ref>
==Biography== He grew up in Inhambane and later attended in Lisbon the Escola de Cinema do Conservatório, forerunner of the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. When Mozambique became independent in 1975, he worked as director of the Serviço Nacional da Rádio Moçambique ({{Interlanguage link|Radio Mozambique|pt|Rádio Moçambique|de|Rádio Moçambique}}). From 1979 he was a journalist for the Mozambican magazine ''Tempo'' with journalist, poet and writer Mia Couto and Albino Magaia. In 1986 he decided to dedicate himself entirely to audiovisual media (cinema and television) as a director and producer.<ref name="cinemaport" /><ref name="africine" /><ref name="buala">{{Cite web |url=https://www.buala.org/pt/cara-a-cara/a-funcao-provocadora-do-artista-entrevista-a-sol-de-carvalho |title=A função provocadora do artista, entrevista a Sol de Carvalho |trans-title=The provocative function of the artist. An interview with Sol de Carvalho |website=buala.org |publisher=Buala |date=28 January 2011 |first=Cristiana |last=Pereira |access-date=2024-07-26 |language=pt}} First published in the magazine África21, January 2011 issue.</ref><ref name="Poder">{{Cite web |url=https://ebooks.uminho.pt/index.php/uminho/catalog/view/49/130/1396-1 |first=Ana Cristina |last=Pereira |title=O Poder ao Centro — Um Modo de Ver Moçambicano: Conversa com Sol de Carvalho |trans-title=Power at the center: A Mozambican view. Conversation with Sol de Carvalho |website=ebooks.uminho.pt |publisher= |language=pt |access-date=2024-07-26 |doi=10.21814/uminho.ed.49.9 |date=May 2017}}</ref> Sol de Carvalho was one of the founders of the Mozambican production company Ébano, together with Pedro Pimenta and Licínio Azevedo), which he later left to start his own new company Promarte.<ref name="africanfilmny" /><ref name="Poder" />
== Filmography == De Carvalho's films include:<ref name="cinemaport" /><ref name="africine" /> {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year !! Film !! Genre !! Role !! Duration (min) |- | 1999 || ''Muhipiti Alima''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://africanfilmny.org/films/mozambique-island-encounter-of-cultures/ |access-date=25 July 2024 |website=africanfilmny.org |publisher=African Film Festival New York |title=Muhipiti Alima by Sol de Carvalho. Mozambique / 1999 / 34mins / Drama / Portuguese}}</ref> || Drama short. Alima wants to go to school, but her husband is against it. || Director || 34 m |- | 2004 || ''The Murmuring Coast'' / ''A Costa dos Murmúrios'' by Margarida Cardoso || Feature || Actor || 120 m |- | 2005 || ''A Janela'' || Short || Director || |- | 2006 || ''{{Interlanguage link|Another Man's Garden|es|O Jardim do Outro Homem}}'' / ''O Jardim do Outro Homem'' || Feature. A university student can be forced by her professor to extend certain favours. || Director, screenwriter, producer || 80 m |- | 2009 || ''O Búzio'' || Short drama || Director, producer in Mozambique || 9 m |- | 2011 || ''Impunidades Criminosas''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt/Filmes/id/4227/t/Impunidades-Criminosas |publisher=SP Autores Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores |language=pt |website=cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt |title=Impunidades Criminosas (2011) 75 min. DCP/cor. Realização: Sol de Carvalho |access-date=25 July 2024}}</ref> (translated title: Unpunished crimes) || Drama short. Sara reminisces about her life. She killed her violent husband Armando and his ghost tormented her at night. She then had to kill Paixão, Armando's gang leader, as well because he forced her to have sex with him. || Director, producer || 35 m |- | 2012 || ''A Terra dos Nossos Avós'' || Documentary short || Producer || 33 m |- | 2015 || ''Operação Angola - Fugir para Lutar''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt/Filmes/id/2892/t/Operacao-Angola-Fugir-para-Lutar |publisher=SP Autores Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores |language=pt |website=cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt |title=Operação Angola - Fugir para Lutar (2015). 119 min DCP/cor. Realização: Diana Andringa |access-date=25 July 2024}}</ref> by Diana Andringa (translated title: Operation Angola: fleeing to fight) || Documentary feature. Some 60 students from the Portuguese colonies, including Pedro Pires, Joaquim Chissano, Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem and Pascoal Mocumbi flee Portugal to escape persecution. || Producer in Mozambique || 116 m |- | 2018 || ''Pele de Luz'' (translated title: Skin of light) || Short drama documentary. Two albino sisters of Maputo survive attempted kidnapping and live in fear of the rampant belief in black magic. || Co-producer || 19 m |- | 2018 || ''Mabata Bata''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://africine.org/film/mabata-bata/19956 |access-date=25 July 2024 |publisher=Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) |website=africine.org |language=fr |title=Mabata Bata |date=2020}}</ref> || Drama feature, adaptation of Mia Couto's short story ''O dia em que explodiu Mabata Bata''. An ox steps on a land mine from the civil war and its oxherd has to flee. || Director, co-producer || 74 m |- | 2018 || ''Geração da Independência'' || Documentary feature || Director || 58 m |- | 2019 || ''Monólogos com a História''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.africine.org/film/monologues-with-the-history/23053 |access-date=25 July 2024 |publisher=Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) |website=africine.org |language=fr |title=Monologues with the history}}</ref> || Drama short || Director, screenwriter, producer || 18 m |- | 2021 || ''Kutchinga''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt/Filmes/id/4168/t/Kutchinga |publisher=SP Autores Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores |language=pt |website=cinemaportuguesmemoriale.pt |title=Kutchinga (2021) 61 min, DCP/cor. Realização: Sol de Carvalho |access-date=25 July 2024}}</ref> || Drama feature. According to the Mozambican tradition called Kutchinga, a widow has to accept sexual relations with the husband's older brother to keep property in the family. A gigolo can be hired to do the job. || Researcher, screenwriter, co-producer, director || 61 m |- | 2022 || ''O Ancoradouro do Tempo'' || Feature, adaptation of Mia Couto's book ''A varanda do frangipani''. Police inspector Izidine investigates a murder in an old colonial fortress and old people's home. Everyone confesses. || Director, co-screenwriter with Mia Couto || 105 m |}
==See also== * Cinema of Mozambique
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=2126054|name=Sol de Carvalho}}
===Videos=== * {{YouTube |id=G7OTmtKvLBE |title=A JANELA de Sol de Carvalho (2005) – trailer}}. Video duration 1m 10s. Uploader Jorge Leitão Ramos 2023. * {{YouTube |id=l8s8a-Q3mzA |title=O BÚZIO de Sol de Carvalho (2009) – trailer}}. Video duration 1m 5s. Uploader Jorge Leitão Ramos 2024. * {{YouTube |id=Re8a0RyYf5s |title=Mabata Bata (Sol de Carvalho, 2018) vistacurta 2020}}. Video duration trailer 1m 40s. Uploader Cine Clube de Viseu 2020. * {{Cite web |url=https://realficcao.com/oancoradourodotempo.html |access-date=25 July 2024 |website=realficcao.com |location=Lisbon |language=fr |title=O Ancoradouro do Tempo (adaptação do livro de Mia Couto "A varanda do frangipani") |date=2023}} Trailer 2m 20s. * {{YouTube |id=GK1IPH6-MjM |title=vistacurta 2020 ✺ Sol de Carvalho}}. Video duration 12m 2s. Uploader Cine Clube de Viseu 2021. Interview of Sol de Carvalho by filmmaker Rui Simões in Portuguese.
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