CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA-MUSEU DO CINEMA SHORT-TERM GRANT PROGRAM

Call for applications for the 2024 edition
 
In accordance with Clause 6 of the Regulations of the Short-Term Grant Program of the Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, this Call for Proposals is published for the 2024 edition, which stipulates that:
 
1. Applications must be sent by e-mail to bolsas@cinemateca.pt by 23:00 on 15 January 2024.

2. Each application must include: the application form (mandatory); the applicant's CV (mandatory); a detailed description of the research project (mandatory); proof of affiliation to the applicant's university or research centre (mandatory); letters of reference considered of interest for the evaluation of the application (optional).

3. The jury that will evaluate the applications will be made up of Teresa Borges and Tiago Baptista (representatives of the CPMC) and Pedro Florêncio (professor and researcher at NOVA FCSH, appointed by the CPMC).
 
4. The priority research topics for the 2024 grants are as follows:
 

• TOPIC 1: History of small-format cinema (9.5 mm, 8 mm, Super8, 16 mm). Examples: studies on collections of family films; studies on the technologies used in small-format cinema; studies on the production and reception of small-format cinema; studies on technical manuals and specialised periodicals on small-format cinema.

• TOPIC 2: Experimental and/or artist’s cinema. Examples: Studies on the films of António Palolo, Fernando Calhau, Ernesto de Sousa, Ana Hatherly, Manuel Pires.

• TOPIC 3: Colonial and post-colonial cinema. Example: Studies on the production and reception of films made in colonial contexts in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Timor-Leste, Goa, Macau (for a list of films available in Cinemateca's film archive, click here).

• TOPIC 4: Monographic studies on Portuguese periodical publications from 1974-1976.

• TOPIC 5: Monographic studies on the photographic work of Arthur Bourdain de Macedo (photojournalism, on set and still photography).