UKBAR FILMES

Description

In search of good stories around the world, Lisbon based Ukbar Filmes produces documentaries and fiction with a tendency for the epic. Social, women´s and historic subjects are transversal over the last productions, most of them international financed. Florbela, the second feature-film by Vicente Alves do Ó, about the Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca, was top 5 in the Portuguese BOXOFICE, while the political drama, Virgin Margarida, by the Mozambican director Licinio Azevedo premiered in TIFF and 25 other festivals. Pablo Iraola and Pandora Cunha Telles run Ukbar in a mix of Pixar meets Bergman.

Objective

Cinema is a product, an entertainment tool but also art in motion, with consequences on discourse, practices of use and consumption. If the formats are dependent of innovation, the contents are dependent of the social sphere and of market requirements in constant mutation. Thus, the only solution is to make audiovisual and cinema products with a quality level able to support the time and changing formats - a format results from agents technology activity, a content supply needs.