The Sound of masks

SARA CF DE GOUVEIA

Sara Gouveia is an award winning filmmaker. She has worked as a writer, director and cinematographer in feature and short documentaries, commercials, online campaigns and music videos.

Sara's first feature length documentary "The Sound of Masks", set in Mozambique, had its World Premiere at IDFA 2018 and was officially selected for the Marrakesh International Film Festival 2018, Hot Docs 2019, New York African Film Festival and the Durban International Film Festival. It received the award for Best Feature Documentary at the Plateau International Film Festival 2019 and the 14th SAFTA Golden Horn Award for Best Cinematography as well as SAFTA nominations for Best Feature Documentary and Best Editing in 2020. In 2021 the film received the awards for Best International Feature and Best Direction at the 7th Brasil Festival of International Cinema.

Sara has since finished the mid-length film "Mother to Mother", which Premiered at the 2020 Encounters South African Film Festival and has received SAFTA nominations for Best Documentary Film, Best Cinematography and Best Sound Design, winning the Writer’s Guild of South Africa Muse award for Best Documentary Script 2020. Her film “Like Water” has also been SAFTA nominated for Best Documentary Short 2021.

PANDORA DE CUNHA TELLES

She was born in the film industry. After Political Science studies she was drawn into film production. Worked at UniPortugal, Animatógrafo and Filmes de Fundo producing five features and lots of shorts before creating Ukbar Filmes. A member of the European Producers Club she is the current president of the Portuguese Producers Association (APCA). The Bergman piece of Ukbar, she’s a dreamer, a motivator and good at bringing creative people together.

JULIA RAMSAY

Julia Ramsay is a producer with practical experience in camera and editing. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Cinematography from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium (AFDA). She started her career developing and creating educational and promotional videos for clients such as Distell and Kempinski amongst others. Julia has also created a number of promotional videos and campaigns for Bacardi Legacy, WMD Awareness and The Style Trunk, as well as for various musicians and artists including Shane Cooper and Nicky Schrire.

KHALID SHAMIS

Khalid Shamis studied film at the university of Middlesex, London, and graduated in 1997. Since then he has been trained as a Director for the Viacom network and worked in the industry in the UK for over 8 years.

Hailing from a Libyan father and South African mother, Khalid settled in South Africa in 2005 to make his debut multi award-winning documentary on the life death and legacy of Apartheid struggle hero, Imam Abdullah Haron. The Imam was Khalid’s grandfather and the film is aptly titled ‘Imam and I’. Khalid has since edited a number of award winning films such as “Action Kommandant”, “Beats Of The Antonov”, “Paths To Freedom”, “Forerunners”, “Strike A Rock”, “The Silent Form” (SAFTA winner for best editing) and “Orbis” and is currently in production with the documentary “The Colonel’s Stray Dogs”.

TIAGO CORREIA-PAULO

Tiago Correia-Paulo is a late seventies baby who hails from Maputo, Mozambique. He 'wasted' a bunch of time studying Development Economics and Human Resource Management in South Africa to later discover that he actually wanted to become a musician, or something like that. Based in Johannesburg, he started a couple of bands so he could record albums, go on tour, and do all the things your conventional musician does. Later, bored with the one dimensional aspect of being in bands, he started working by himself on film scores and other musical experimentations. Not long after, and almost instinctively, he ends up bridging other inclinations like design, illustration and editing, and dives head first into the world of film making. He’s currently an integral part of a few musical ventures, has his own electronic solo endeavour, built a studio where he works with and produces other artists, and spends a fair amount of time working on film scores and soundscapes for a wide array of projects.