Beauty and the Paparazzo (A Bela e o Paparazzo)

Joao is a paparazzo known as "Gabriela" who sells photos of celebrities to the "Fama" magazine (the kind of press that is always looking for news and pictures of those people, even if it's the most uninteresting thing about them). He's working now on Mariana, a famous TV actress, pursuing her and taking shots of her. Mariana is famous but she hates all these "pink magazines" and getting her personal life exposed. One day, after she almost hit a taxi, she fights with the taxi driver and Joao goes help her. The taxi driver punches Joao, and Joao starts to bleed. Mariana takes Joao to a hospital and a friendship starts rising. She doesn't know who he is of course…

Cast:
Soraia Chaves (Mariana)
Marco D'Almeida (João)
Pedro Laginha (Hugo)
Nuno Markl (Tiago)

Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos
Writer: Tiago Santos
Runtime: 106 min
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Language: Portuguese
Production Year: 2010

The screening is part of the second Ibero-American Film Festival organized by the Spanish Embassy in Cyprus.