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Title
Fratelli
Directors
Gabriel Abrantes
Alexandre Melo
Country
Portugal




Cast
Ricardo de Sá, Gonçalo Waddington, Maria Albergaria, Maria Leite, Martim Barbeiro
Production
A Mutual Respect
Distribution
A Mutual Respect
Genre
Fiction
Duration
17'
Year
2011
Festivals
Queer Lisboa, Vila do Conde (Portugal)
First showing in
Barcelona
PORTUGAL IN SHORT
Fratelli
Adaptation of the prologue of The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare.

Gabriel Abrantes was born in North Carolina (USA) in 1984. He graduated with a degree in film and visual arts in New York in 2006. In 2010, along with Natxo Checa and ZDB Gallery, he founded Respeto Mutuo, an independent film production company. He now lives and works in Lisbon, preparing his next films.
Alexandre Melo was born in Lisbon, where he lives and works. He has a Master in Economics and a PhD in sociology, and he is a professor at ISCTE, where he teaches art sociology and contemporary culture. Since the eighties, he has collaborated with several contemporary art international newspapers and magazines, organized exhibitions and published several books.