Licinio De Azevedo

LICINIO DE AZEVEDO arrived in Mozambique in 1977 in order to work in the National Film Institute researching stories of the War of Independence, to serve as the basis for feature film scripts. The first piece of research he did for the Film Institute resulted in his first book Relatos de Povo Armado (Tales of the Armed People) which told real stories found in the field during three months in the Moeda Plains in the north of Mozambique; the first region to be liberated in the war. Later he began...See more

LICINIO DE AZEVEDO arrived in Mozambique in 1977 in order to work in the National Film Institute researching stories of the War of Independence, to serve as the basis for feature film scripts. The first piece of research he did for the Film Institute resulted in his first book Relatos de Povo Armado (Tales of the Armed People) which told real stories found in the field during three months in the Moeda Plains in the north of Mozambique; the first region to be liberated in the war. Later he began to make films using the same creative technique of mixing the narrative styles of factual and fictional storytelling. In his documentaries he uses the dramatic structure used for fiction. His fictions are always based on fact. The Train of Salt and Sugar is the result of the same creative process See less