Short Film News- Jose Vieira Marques, director of Figueira da Foz Film Festival, died in last 4th of July at the age of 72.
Marques's activities extended to film criticism and teaching (Film and Video History and Criticism), along with cooperation with the Portuguese Federation of Film Societies.
For three decades, Marques was the director of Figueira da Foz film festival, looked upon as one of the most prominent authorities in Independent Cinema of the world, and responsible for a major event in the discovery and promotion of films and filmmakers, the Figueira da Foz Film Festival that had its last edition (31st) in 2002.
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