Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) announced this Wednesday in Lisbon (Portugal) the 25 projects selected for the 3rd edition of the CPLP Audiovisual Program (PAV III), among which three are from Cape Verde.
According to Inforpress, these are the feature film “O país que me habita” (The Country That Inhabits Me), by director Olavo de Jesus Delgado da Luz, and the short films “Caminhu longe” (Walking Far) and “Cabo Verde: 50 anos de independência” (Cape Verde: 50 Years of Independence), respectively, by Carlos Manuel Ferreira Nobre Dias and Ricardo Leote.
Among the award winners are also two projects from Mozambique, and four projects each for Angola, Brazil, Equatorial Guinea, and Portugal.
The announcement was made by the executive coordinator of the PAV III Technical Unit, Mário Borgneth, who explained that of the 25 awarded projects, seven are feature films (52 minutes), six documentaries and one fiction work, and 18 are short film projects (15 to 30 minutes), eight documentaries and ten fiction works.
According to that official, for this edition, 1,900 production entities registered on the PAV III platform, of which 591 projects were submitted.
Of these 591 projects, 79 were pre-selected, culminating in the jury’s choice of the 25 works, whose awards provide financial resources for the respective productions and projects, which will be broadcast by the public television network of the CPLP member states.
According to this newspaper’s source, the selection process was carried out by an international jury, composed of professionals with “high experience” in the sector, which included representatives from Angola, Cape Verde, Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal.
Mário Borgneth also presented the main actions planned for 2026 within the scope of the PAV (Audiovisual Program), which includes the production phase of projects selected in the CPLP 2025 call for proposals, monitoring the production process of technical training workshops in the areas of photography, sound, and editing.
Also planned are the coordination of the CPLP public television network for content curation and broadcast planning of the “Our Language” programming block, the holding of an international audiovisual conference in the CPLP, the launch of the publication “CPLP Audiovisual Panel,” and the development and structuring of the 4th edition of the PAV.
The CPLP Audiovisual Program, Inforpress continues, operates through the CPLP Audiovisual Network, composed of public television broadcasters and audiovisual authorities from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste.
The third edition of PAV, which takes place from 2025 to 2027, is financed by resources contributed by Angola, Brazil, and Portugal, and is operationally coordinated by the technical unit formed by the Executive Secretariat of the CPLP together with ICAB – the Brazilian Institute of Audiovisual Content.
In previous editions, PAV I and PAV II, the program produced 18 documentaries and four fiction works. In addition, 28 productions are shown through the interchangeable channel “Our Language,” totaling 50 hours of programming shared between the countries.
The event took place in the auditorium of the CPLP headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, and also included speeches by the organization’s Director-General, Miguel Monteiro, representing the Executive Secretary, Maria de Fátima Jardim, and the President of the Portuguese Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual, Luís Chaby Vaz.
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