Samira Vera-Cruz

Samira Vera-Cruz
Born Samira Nandi Marques Vera-Cruz Pinto
(1990-09-11) 11 September 1990
Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Occupation actress, director
Years active 2016-present

Samira Nandi Marques Vera-Cruz (born 11 September 1990) is a Cape Verdean actress, producer and an editor.

Biography

She has a Cape Verdean and an Angolan parent. She grew up in the cities of Mindelo, Praia and Lisbon, the latter in Portugal.

She finished her course in Film Studies and a minor in Global Communications at the American University of Paris in 2013.[1]

She started her professional life as a journalist at Agência Cabo-verdiana de Imagens (ACI = Capeverdean Images Agency) and later as an account manager at Greenstudio in Praia on Santiago Island.

She went to Angola in early 2014 and worked for a year as an audiovisual producer of Muxima Filmes in the city of Luanda.

She returned to Cape Verde, where she worked for a few months at Kriolscope, as executive producer, she appeared in a short film Buska Santu in 2016,[2] the film was screened at the CVIFF.[3] and the Cinema do Plateau International Festival[4][5]

Filmography

  • Busku Santu [Busca Santo] (2016)
  • Hora di Bai (2017) - short film
  • Sukuru [Seguro] (2017)

References

  1. ↑ The American University of Paris
  2. ↑ "Realizadora Samira Vera-Cruz estreia com o filme "Buska Santo"" [Actress Samira Vera-Cruz Stars in the Film Buska Santu] (in Portuguese). RTC. 14 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Cabo Verde realiza VII edição de festival internacional de cinema". 13 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Festival Internacional de Cinema "Plateau" sem vertente competitiva este ano". A Semana (in Portuguese). 23 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Samira Vera Cruz / Personalidades / Identidade / Inicio - CABO VERDE info" (in Portuguese). Cabo Verde Info. 14 June 2017.


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