Interview with Pedro Neves, in Público newspaper

"Pedro Neves films out of necessity, against oblivion and needs time to get to the heart of the stories he wants to tell." Text by Jorge Mourinha and photos by Adriano Miranda. 

Pedro Neves films out of necessity, against oblivion
“I'm never anxious about premieres, but I was at this one,” confesses Pedro Neves when remembering the moment of the first public screening of his long film Tarrafal, at the Rivoli. It was last Tuesday night, in front of many of the former inhabitants of the Porto neighborhood of São João de Deus, known as Tarrafal, who had told their life stories in front of the director's camera. “I knew what they had given me, which were very difficult stories.” 

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