101: Manoel de Oliveira as seen by Luis Miñarro

Manoel de Oliveira is the oldest active filmmaker around today. He began making documentaries in the 1930s. After the commercial failure of his feature debut Aniki Bóbó (1942) he took up other professions. He later worked on set with Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli, and his films have competed at Cannes and Venice. De Oliveira has been shooting at least one film per year since 1990. Producer Luis Miñarro, who helped launch The Mosquito Net, the film which won the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2010, will this year present festival audiences with his twenty-minute portrait of this outstanding director, whose last two films (Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl and The Strange Case of Angelica) he coproduced. The screening will be followed by a discussion during which Miñarro will share his many experiences working with this Portuguese filmmaking legend. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)