Pocas Pascoal is an Angolan film director.
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Maria Esperança "Pocas" Pascoal, was born on 11 November 1963[1]: 138 in Luanda, Angola, where she grew up until the age of 16 before leaving the civil war to Lisbon, Portugal with her sister.[2] Two years later, she returned to Angola and became the first camerawomen for television in Luanda.[3] In France, Pascoal studied at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais (CLCF) and graduated in film editing. In 2002, she joined a group of artists of the Cité internationale des arts and took part in several contemporary arts exhibitions.[4] Currently Pascoal lives between Paris and Lisbon, where she is working on her next feature film that will tell the love story between a South African soldier and an Angolan.
In 1998, she directed her first short fiction film in India "For us" and two documentaries: Childhood Memories (2000) and There is always somebody who loves you (2004). She also directed and the short film Tomorrow will be different (2008).[4] In 2011 she directed her first feature film Over here everything is fine, a story based on her exile from Portugal. This film received the Jury Award for Best Narrative at the Los Angeles Film Independent Festival in 2012.[5][1]: 294 The film has also been produced under the name Alda and Maria which was released in January 2015.[6] Her work has been featured in over 20 festivals worldwide since she began her career as a film maker.