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Resem Verkron, Marc Serena

AS AVENTURAS DO ANGOSAT

Fiction | mov | color | 35:0 | Angola | 2025

In 2017 Angola launched its first satellite into space… and it was shortly declared lost. As Aventuras do Angosat is thed dream born from that frustrated endeavour, in the form of a musical film written and performed by Isis Hembe, one of the leading names in Angolan urban music, here transformed into Man Ré. Filmed in a single take in the Cazenga district of Luanda with new emerging talents.

Resem Verkron (1999) is part of two leading prominent cultural movements in Luanda: the urban art collective Verkron Collective and Geração 80. His debut short, Lola & Mami (2021), explored toxic masculinity. Marc Serena (1983) codirected the award-winning documentary Tchindas (2015), broadcast on PBS in the United States. His feature El escritor de un país sin librerías premiered at l’Alternativa and won a DIG Award for outstanding European investigative journalism.