Produced by RTP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of April 25th, the documentary highlights unknown filmmakers who captured the Portuguese revolution. It features a team from ORTF, the then French public television, who were in Lisbon anticipating a military coup; a team from TVE who managed to film unique footage of the siege on the PIDE/DGS headquarters in the early hours of April 26th; and an RTP camera operator, who was barred from entering the already occupied station but filmed the operations of the captain’s movement in Lisbon streets, providing the only televised images of that day in Portugal.
The Gabo Awards, established by the foundation created by Colombian writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez in 1995, were instituted in 2013 to recognize journalistic work in the Ibero-American space across six categories: audio, text, image, photography, coverage, and innovation.
The documentary ‘Os Olhos da Revolução’, edited by Sara Cravina and produced by Gonçalo Silva, is a finalist in the image category. It competes against ‘A Raposa’ from BBC News Brasil/BBC World Service, covering drug trafficking, and ‘En la caliente – Historias de un guerrero del reguetón’, a co-production between Cuba and the United States through The Cuban Joint, Zafra Media, Cacha Films, and Caffeine Post, focusing on Cuban musician Candyman (Ruben Cuesta Palomo), a reggaeton pioneer, as a focal point of social transformations in Cuba during the late 1990s.
In the previous selection phase, two works from the newspaper Expresso were also nominated for the 2025 Gabo Awards: the report ‘Diários Migrantes’ by Salomé Rita, Ana França, Tiago Pereira Santos, and João Carlos Santos, and ‘Mitra, the ‘deposit’ of Lisbon where the Estado Novo confined undesirable people’ by Raquel Moleiro, Joana Pereira Bastos, Tiago Miranda, and Ruben Tiago.
Gabo was the adopted nickname of Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’.
The awards are presented as part of the Gabo Festival, a forum dedicated to journalistic practice, taking place in Cartagena, Colombia, until Sunday.
The winners of the Gabo Prize receive 35 million Colombian pesos (approximately 7,360 euros), a diploma, and a copy of the sculpture “Gabriel” by Colombian artist Antonio Caro (1950-2021).
