Leão Lopes

Leão Lopes was born in 1948 on the island of Santo Antão. He studied painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon, then defended a thesis in Rennes on the writer Baltasar Lopes. In 1979 he founded in Mindelo the AtelierMar, an association for training and local development which he long chaired, and from 1983 to 1987 he co-edited the journal Ponto e Vírgula. Minister of culture and communication in the government of Carlos Veiga, then a deputy of the Movement for Democracy, he founded in the same city a university institute of art and technology, of which he was rector.

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• CinemaIlhéu de ContendaLeão Lopes · 1995Cinema