Died director Fernando Avila – TVI24

The director Fernando Avila died on Saturday after 61 years at the Hospital S. Francisco Xavier, cancer victim, told the Lusa news agency close to the director source.

Sunday, the body’s director will be from 14:00 in the Church of St. John of God in Lisbon where on Monday a funeral mass will be celebrated at 10:00.

The funeral follows then to the Alto de S. João Cemetery, where the director’s body will be cremated.

The short film “peripheral hearts”, 1991, with Carlos Have argument (and a song by Rui Veloso), is among the director’s works of fiction. The film was part of a series of four episodes – four short films of Portuguese filmmakers just beginning their careers, as Manuel Mozos and Luis Alvarães – on “teenagers on a trip without return.”

Fernando Avila also signed “Post of Well Wanting” with Antonio Torrado argument (1992), and “Crime in Estrelinha Pension” (1990) and “Hermanias Special New Year” (1991) Herman Joseph, who was a friend, beyond the television adaptation of “Come By Me in Rossio” (1992).

In your route still include documentary works and television versions of shows like “The Marriage” by Stravinsky, choreographed by Christopher Bruce, for the Ballet Gulbenkian, which took edition of NVC Arts International, and ” 13 A body gestures, “Olga Roriz’s choreography for the Ballet Gulbenkian, produced by EurekaTV (Berlin, 1989).

“Astor Piazzolla in Lisbon” gave the director of the Prague Festival Award for the best 1988 Ávila TV Musical Program directed the first docuemntal television series about fate, “old Trovas, crazy saudade” ( 2010), according to the script musicologist Rui Vieira Nery and presentation of Carlos do Carmo, and the support of the Fado Museum.

“Diary of a Missing”, ballet designed by Madalena Vitorino, “Pierrot Lunaire”, about the work of Arnold Schoenberg (1988), “The Childhood of Jesus”, Berlioz, “Medea” by Cherubini, directed by Luis Miguel Cintra, and tetralogy of Richard Wagner “Ring of the Nibelung”, produced by the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, were other shows directed by Fernando Avila.

“Tell me about it,” “State of Grace” and “VIP Manicure”, “Alone At Home,” “This Is The Agildo”, “the unstoppable”, “My Dear Grandfather” “Residencial Tejo”, “The spirit of the law”, “The Man She bit her dog”, “A Normal Family” and “The Mother of Sr.Ministro” are other works of fiction who directed.

they still join staging of the play of Georges Feydeau “The Flea Ear Behind”, set up by the Commune Theatre, “I Hate Hamlet” and “Docks” series.

Fernando Avila was graduated in Architecture from the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon and joined the RTP since 1987. Today, performed the comedy show “Owners of It All”, for public television.