MEET THE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: Laís Andrade
Laís Andrade
Laís Andrade was born in 1997, in Brazil, and migrated to a rural area of Portugal at the age of four. In 2020, she finished her Master’s Degree in Film at University of Beira Interior. For the final project, she wrote and directed “Green House” (2021), an award-winning short film about a migrant woman working in illegal plantations, based on her community’s stories. At the ending of 2021, she also directed the short film “Gagne-Pain” (2021) at the residence Cineluso, in Brussels, about four stories of migrant people. She is now working on her next short film, based on her own migration experience as a child. She also works as a screenwriter, script supervisor and assistant director.
Growing up in your colonizer’s country always feels like some kind of Stockholm syndrome. But I also see it as being able to occupy this place myself. […] I’m the descendant of black, white and indigenous people... but I don’t know who they are. My history was erased. And since I realized that fact, I made it my mission to not let other stories be erased...
