Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller' (Carnaval: à procura de Paulo Moleiro) 16 years old

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee/player in the finished film). Paulo "Miller" is known for taking a dangerous jump into the Alva from a bridge each year during carnival, but what this film is about is, in keeping with the free-roving feature, much less the subject himself than Gomes and co.'s inability to pin him down; not only does he not do his famous jump during this year's carnival, but an ostensible technical/audio failure (as with the feature, it's very difficult to say how much of this film is "fact," how much invented) during Gomes's initial on-camera meeting with Paulo "Miller" leads to five minutes of lip-readers attempting to decipher their conversation.

Credits

Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller' Cast

Name Character
Miguel Gomes He was 36, now 52 years old

Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller' Crew

Name Department
Telmo Churro as Editor. He was 31 (now 47) years old Editing
Miguel Gomes as Director. He was 36 (now 52) years old Directing
Miguel Gomes as Editor. He was 36 (now 52) years old Editing
Sandro Aguilar as Producer. He was 34 (now 50) years old Production
Luís Urbano as Producer. He was 40 (now 56) years old Production
Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller' poster
Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller' (16 years)

  • Release day: Tuesday, January 01, 2008
  • Runtime: 22 minutes