Announcement from Rui Carvalho, who is curating an anthology of poetry about movie director Manoel de Oliveira and seeks submissions.

How to honor a great movie director

Manoel de Oliveira is the oldest movie director still working! He is 106 years old and continues to produce one movie per year! One of his best movies was “Abraham’s Valley”, moody and beautiful, but we could mention many others. He is also an example of positive thinking and an example to all of us. It is to honor this example of work and quality at work that we invite you to write a small poem, about him or his movies, in your own language, and send it to us.

Please visit the following websites to know more about Manoel de Oliveira and his work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoel_de_Oliveira and

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0210701/bio and

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1020999/Manoel-de-Oliveira

We will select 106 poems and produce an e-book of poetry that will be available for windows (laptop) and windows phone (smartphone)!

Please hurry up! The submission of poetry for this contest starts 1st January 2015 and ends 31st January 2015!

Results will be available 15 February at: http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt

Please send one or two poems, with message’s subject “Poem to Manoel de Oliveira”, to:

(e-mail of the partner) and ruiprcar@gmail.com

Together with:

Name; Country; e-mail contact;

We expect to publish the book until 31 February!

Enjoy 2015! All best!