SAUDADE


  • Photographer
    Theresa Ortolani
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2015
  • Technical Info
    Excerpt from film, in progress
  • Moving Link

I was born at dawn, as 'Dawn', in New York. My motherland. In Portugal, my fatherland, I am called 'Aurora'. But, my mother did not raise me. My mother took me home – smuggled me in utero, across International borders, when no one could possibly detect the made-in-Portugal-out-of-wedlock embryo she secretly hid under her dress. I spent a lifetime searching – at first internally, then actively. After locating Gaspar, my birth-father in Portugal, he became my guide. We began retracing our biological family's footsteps, filming as a means of self-discovery (for me) and repentance (for him).

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