Portugal, Norway
19′10″, 2022.
DIRECTED BY
PRODUCED BY
SCRIPTWRITER
CINEMATOGRAPHER
EDITED BY
Catarina Alves Costa, Frode Storaas
From January to Easter cod move south from the Barents Sea to spawn in the northern Norwegian islands of Lofoten. Most of the catch is exported to Portugal and Brazil – 400 000 tons in 2020. The film follows the cod from the sea in Norway to the dinner table in Portugal.
Catarina Alves Costa is a filmmaker and a visual anthropologist. She has been directing films since 1992, and has won various international prizes and published different works on documentary and ethnographic films. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Visual Culture at the Department of Anthropology Nova University in Lisbon and a researcher at CRIA. She worked at the Ethnographic Museum in Lisbon with film archives. She collaborates with different post-graduation studies abroad: Barcelona, Spain, São Paulo University, Brazil and Mexico City. Frode Storaas is professor emeritus in visual anthropology at the University Museum of Bergen, Norway. As an anthropologist his main work has been in Eastern Africa. As a filmmaker he has worked in several countries. Storaas has been General secretary of Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA), and has initiated and co-edited the Journal of Anthropological Films.
