AO NORTE

Founded in 1994, AO NORTE is a non-profit association based in Viana do Castelo, Portugal working on arts & culture, education, heritage.

AO NORTE is a non-profit association based in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, founded in December 1994. It works in audiovisual production, film club activities (cineclube), film training and education for development in teaching, education and culture. Its productions are ethnographic and anthropological in character, documenting rural Portugal, and it has made documentaries in Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambique. Through its Oficina de Fotografia it runs photography training, exhibitions and debate. It organises the ENCONTROS / Viana Film Festival, the MONTARIA Documentary and Heritage event, and weekly Cineclub sessions at Cinema Verde Viana, and runs the Lugar do Real online platform, a film documentation centre and a DVD library.