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Vicente Jorge Silva relaunched and directed the Funchal trade (city where he was born in 1945), he was deputy director of Quick and later co-founder and director of Public. He died during the early hours of this Tuesday, in Lisbon.
The news was advanced by the newspaper Public.
Born in Funchal, where he was born on November 8, 1945, Vicente Jorge Silva was passionate about cinema, but he ended up making a career in journalism, having also been a deputy, an experience that he did not like.
When he was only 15 years old, when he admitted to RTP Madeira that he was “a bit rebellious”, he was forced to leave the institute, due to problems with the PIDE, which is why he was writing at that time. He began to have problems with the Estado Novo Political Police, around the age of 14.
“They called me to the PIDE for writing things in the newspapers that I should not have done. Dare to write in the newspapers without being old enough for that was already a sign of rebellion that annoyed them”, Vicente Jorge Silva recalled in an interview.
He lived in France, where he worked in a glue factory and then in England, where he tried to enroll in film school, but the Portuguese consulate did not extend his visa, ending up washing dishes in a hotel. He returned to Madeira in 1966, to breathe new life into the regional newspaper. Funchal trade.
Vicente Jorge Silva marked a generation in journalism in Portugal, his controversial expression “scratch generation”, in an editorial that he signed during the student demonstrations against the then Minister of Education of the Government of Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Manuela Ferreira Leite.
He began by writing articles about films on the “Focus” page of Jornal da Madeira, later assuming the direction of Comércio do Funchal. Later, as editor-in-chief and deputy director of the Quick, was responsible for launching that weekly magazine. But the launch of Público was “his greatest professional challenge,” according to the newspaper’s publication.
The idea of creating a “modern European magazine of reference” came from Vicente Jorge Silva, but several journalists from Quick – such as Jorge Wemans, Augusto M. Seabra, Henrique Cayatte, José Manuel Fernandes, José Vítor Malheiros, Nuno Pacheco, Joaquim Fidalgo and José Queirós.
In 1996 he left Público, at the age of 51, and began directing the magazine. To invest, which did not last long.
“In fact, since Public I never had anything to fill my measurements”he admitted to the Observer, exactly one year ago.
The journalist was a columnist for several newspapers, including Diário de Notícias and Público, where he returned in recent years, occupying the column that had been Vasco Pulido Valente.
As a journalist, he was also distinguished with two awards, among which is the Cupertino Miranda Award, considered the most relevant at that time in Portuguese journalism.
In addition to journalism, Vicente Jorge Silva embraced projects in cinema and politics, while he was a deputy for the Socialist Party, elected by the Lisbon constituency.
Vicente Jorge Silva was a militant and deputy of the PS, between 2002 and 2004. He did not like the experience as a deputy because for a journalist “you cannot change your skin and your soul,” he said in an interview four years ago, pointing out that this Comment is not translated into a critique of the essence of political life.
“The cinema was a great dream”, but it was more difficult “to be a filmmaker than a journalist”, stated in the interview “One life, one story” to RTP Madeira on March 18, 2016, adding that when he had bad grades, his parents would not let him go to the movies.
As a filmmaker, the films “The limit and the hours” (1961), “The speech of power” (1976), “Vicente Photographer” (1978), “The bicycle – O the time that the earth forgot” (1979) stand out. and “Isla Colombo (1997)”. Porto Santo (1997), his latest film work, was shown at the Geneva International Festival.
