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The Burning of Judas

ENG:
The tradition of the Burning of Judas spread around the world with Portuguese and Spanish navigation. And despite being enforced in many places, each community finds a unique way of expressing itself, caricaturing behaviors. And in the small village of Pampilhosa, in Portugal, it is after the traditional "Cod Burial" that people prepare for the self-critical portrait in the form of a scarecrow. Done in the utmost secrecy.

PT:
[A Festa: Queima do Judas]
A tradição da Queima do Judas correu mundo com as navegações de portugueses e espanhóis. E apesar de cumprida em muitos lugares, cada comunidade encontra um modo único de se exprimir, caricaturando comportamentos. E na Pampilhosa, é a seguir ao enterro do bacalhau que se avança para o retrato em forma de espantalho. Feito no maior secretismo.

  • Paulo Fajardo
    Director
    Scorched Earth, Wellington's First Line, Selfie
  • Ricardo Venâncio
    Writer
    Wellington's First Line
  • Paulo Fajardo
    Writer
    Scorched Earth, Wellington's First Line, Selfie
  • Paulo Fajardo
    Producer
  • Dora Matos
    Producer
    Scorched Earth, Wellington's First Line
  • Filomena Pinheiro
    Producer
  • Marcos Fernandes
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • Daniel Vieira
    Key Cast
    "Himself"
  • João Pedro Marques
    Key Cast
    "Himself"
  • Manuel Venâncio
    Key Cast
    "Declamador de Quadras"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    A Festa: Queima do Judas
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 3, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Encontros de Cinema na Mealhada
    Mealhada
    Portugal
    November 3, 2023
    Premiere
  • Sessão Especial: Cinema na Eira
    Anadia
    Portugal
    December 5, 2023
    Invited Short Documentary
  • Arraial Cine Fest
    Porto Seguro
    Brazil
    February 24, 2024
    Official Selection
  • International Short Cinema Festival
    La Paz
    Bolivia, Plurinational State of
    February 2, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Camões TV
    Toronto
    Canada
    March 30, 2024
    North America Cable TV
    Guest Short Documentary
  • Cineteatro Messias
    Mealhada
    Portugal
    March 30, 2024
    Exibição teatral durante a quadra Pascal
    Guest Short Documentary
  • Finisterra Brazil Film Art & Tourism Festival
    Porto Seguro
    Brazil
    September 2, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Curtas em Castelo de Paiva
    Castelo de Paiva
    Portugal
    November 30, 2024
    Honorable Mention
Distribution Information
  • Município da Mealhada
    Distributor
    Country: Portugal
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Paulo Fajardo

Paulo César Fajardo was born in 1980, in the city of Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
He began his activity as an independent producer in 1999, having developed several documentary and fiction projects, and in 2006, he completed his degree in Tourism from the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal).
"Outono" (2000), his first short film, earned him the International Critics' Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival. In the following years he collaborated as a freelancer in the areas of camera operator, editor and director in entertainment programs for various national and international television channels; SIC, RTP, TVI, Canal 6 - Pluricanal, SportTV, VIVA, GMTV, TV5 and CamõesTV.
Among his most noticeable films, which earned him national and international recognition at film festivals, are the documentaries "Berlenga - A Ilha do Farol" (2011), "A Rebentação/Breaking Waves" (2018), "A Primeira Linha de Wellington/Wellington's First Line" ( 2021), "Africa, como eu a vi" (2024) and the film “Terra Queimada/Scorched Earth” (2022). In 2012, as a co-host, he started the podcast "VHS", the longest-running cinema podcast in Portugal, and from 2012 to 2016, he created and directed the web tv "BairradaTV".
In 2017 he was co-founder of the "Marmostra" film festival, in 2019 he was a founding member of "Cineclub Bairrada", and in 2023 he was invited to co-program "Encontros de Cinema na Mealhada/Cinema Meetings in Mealhada". From 2004 to the present, he has been working as a tv news cameraman and editor for the television channels SIC and SIC Notícias, where he highlights the production of several special reports and the weekend section "Castelos de Portugal/Castles of Portugal" for the news program "Jornal da Noite".

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Director Statement

This film aims to document and preserve the popular tradition of the Burning of Judas for future memory, and was produced to be presented at the 1st Cinema Meetings in Mealhada (Encontros de Cinema da Mealhada), in Portugal, under the theme of Preservation of Identity, Tradition and Memory.

This film was made to the general public, national and international, over 12 years of age.