Featured Documentary
THE CLUB
55min | 2021
Director | Nalini Elvino de Sousa
Co-Authors| Nalini Elvino de Sousa & Pedro Pombo
Synopsis
Goa since the second half of the 19th century has been the font of valued human resource export to Africa and Macau.
This documentary brings to life various facets of this era: the shared spaces, the shared life stories, and the travails of this Goan diaspora in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar.
Selected for the 26th Madurai International Film Festival, India, Dec 2023
Semi-finalist at the International Moving Film Festival, Khouzestan, Dec 2023
Selected for Your Way International Film Festival, Oct 2023
Winner of Best Historical Film and Best Feature Documentary Film in Sofia International Film Festival, season May-August 2023
Winner of the 5th prize in the New Delhi Film Festival, 2023
Nominated for Best Documentary in Pan African Youth Film & Arts Festival, 2022
Winner of the second prize for Best Documentary in the 16th Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF), 2022
1st January 2024 – TV Cine, 9:10 am, Portugal
22nd December 2023 – Serendipity Art Festival, Goa Familia exhibition, 6 pm
20th December 2023 – Serendipity Art Festival, Goa Familia exhibition, 6 pm
20th December 2023 – TV Cine, 8:45 am, Portugal
18th December 2023 – Serendipity Art Festival, Goa Familia exhibition, 6 pm
15th December, 2023 – TV Cine, 12:25 pm, Portugal
10th December 2023 – TV Cine, 11:am, Portugal
5th December 2023 – TV Cine, 11:30m, Portugal
16th November 2023 – TV Cine, 10:05 am, Portugal
12th November 2023 – TV Cine, 3:05 am, Portugal
7th November 2023 – TV Cine, 11 pm, Portugal
1st October 2023 – 12th Lusophone Film Festival, Goa, India
5th July 2023 – Casa de Goa, Lisbon, Portugal
4th July 2023 – São Paulo University, Brazil
30th June 2023 – São Paulo University, Brazil
15th June 2023 – Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
5th February 2023 – Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts, Altinho, India
16th November 2022 – Goa Heritage
Festival, Campal, Goa, India
10th November 2022 – premiered on RTP2 (Portuguese television – Chanel 2), Portugal
3rd August 2022 – Archipelagic Memory:
Intersecting Geographies Histories and Disciplines, University of Mauritius,
Mauritius
9th May 2022 – Meyes music to our eyes, INETmd, University of Aveiro – VIC Art House, Aveiro, Portugal
25th March 2022 – NYU University, Abu
Dhabi, UAE
12th December 2021 – Dar Es Salaam
Institute (DI), Dar, Tanzania
13th November 2021 – International Indian Ocean conversations, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Director | Nalini Elvino de Sousa
Co-authors | Nalini Elvino de Sousa and Pedro Pombo
Producers | Nalini Elvino de Sousa, Jacinta Barros, Rui Simões
Camera | Namitha Nair, Kaushtub R. Hundekar, Vikas Urs, Agnelo Gonsalves, Abdul Jafary
Drone | Abdul Jafary
Sound Recording | Alok Kotian, Ravi Kumar
Sound Mastering | Ravi Kumar
Editor | Gasper D’Souza
Animation | Sofia Ferreira
Colour correction | Francisco Costa
Research team: Clara Rodrigues, Pedro Pombo
Author of the DI drawing | Sarah Merkes
Musicians | Steven Sequeira – piano, Alan Joseph Abreu – voice and keyboard, Brian Bones – voice and bass, Laury Pires – voice and tamborim, Sabby – voice and guitar, Sigmund de Souza – voice and guitar, Lenon Pires – djembe, Adrian D’Souza – guitar, Alex D’Souza – drums, Alvin D’Souza – bass, Clifford Mascarenhas – keyboard, larina D’Souza – voice, Braz Gonsalves – saxofone
Music | Holy Grace – Braz Gonsalves, In the Mood – Glenn Miller
Institutional Archives |RTP, AP, Freemantle, Huntley Films
Private Archives | Mervyn Lobo, Adrien Roden, Sabby Almeida, Judy Luis-Watson, Library of Congress – Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Northwestern University – UN Collection, Antonio Menezes, Brian Bones, Torrence Royer
Special acknowledgements | Judy Luis-Watson, Mervyn Lobo, Selma Carvalho
Acknowledgements | Dar Es Salaam Institute (DI), Maria Meireles, Neville Trindade, Parvesh Java, Sonia Filinto, Tina d’Mello Sequeira
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