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Two close
Portugal, 12min, 2004

Director: Joao Salaviza

Cast: Rui Morrison, Julie Sargeant
Production manager: Ricardo Oliveira
Screenplay: Ines Clemente
Director of photography: Vasco Viana
Cameraman: Emanuel Lopes
Sound director: Ines Clemente
Art direction: Nadia Santos Henriques
Make-up: Sandra Catarino
Editing: Tiago Nunes, Nadia Santos Henriques, Silvio Sousa, Sara Esteves, Joao Salaviza

Synopsis: A prostitute and a client of hers have loneliness as their only common ground. Even thou this leads them to intimacy; it is also the reason why it is immediately denied. And so they stay, on those nights, two people completely alone. With one another.

Joao Salaviza
Lisbon, 19th february 1984

Joao Salaviza is studying at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, editing branch.

At the ESTC:
2002-03 – he directed the documentary “O homem invisivel” (video, 9 min)
he wrote de screenplay of the short “Vinte e poucos anos”
2003-04 – he directed the short “Duas pessoas” (16mm, 9min)
he directed videos for the stage play “Estarei eu ao menos a ser visto” by Sameul Becket – a production of the Theatre department of the ESTC

Non school productions:
2004 – He photographed and edited the video “Viagem” by Ana Telhado – Winner of the “Mostra de Video do Barreiro 2004”
2004 – He photographed the video “Living Tissues” by Ana Telhado, for “Semana da Juventude do Barreiro”.

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