Lara Sousa

Lara Sousa, also Lara de Sousa, is a Mozambican filmmaker. She worked as a programmer of the DOCKANEMA Documentary Festival of Mozambique for several years and had been engaged in social and development projects, focusing her research on gender issues, human rights and others.

Career In 2017, she wrote, directed and produced the Spanish documentary, La Finca del Miedo (The Farm of Fear), produced by IECTV, Cuba.

In 2018, she directed a documentary film, Fin (End), also released in Cuba.

The documentary, The Ship and the Sea (Portuguese: O Navio e o Mar), which she co-produced with Matheus Mello, and co-directed with Everlane Moraes, was selected alongside about 30 other films as a Finance Forum Projects at the 11th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF 2020) held between September 10 to 20, online. The film also won at the 2020 Durban FilmMart, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Award of The Netherlands.

She participated at the 2020 Indaba initiative selection, under the first category, "The 2020 participants with projects are producers", with the feature film project by Inadelso Costa titled, "Karigana".

She participated in the Colab NowNow exhibition organized by the British Council, partnering with Maputo Fast Forward festival of Mozambique and Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival of South Africa.

Filmography Year Film Role Notes Ref. 2020 The Ship and the Sea (O Navio e o Mar Co-director, Co-producer Documentary (Creative) Machimbrao - El hombre nuevo Director Documentary (Creative) 2018 Fin (End) Director Documentary (Creative) 2017 La Finca del Miedo (The Farm of Fear) Director, Producer, Writer Documentary