Flavio Alves

Quick Facts

Full Name	Flavio Alves
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Nov 30, 1969(1969-11-30)
Age	55
Country	Brazil
Birth City	Rio de Janeiro
Horoscope	Scorpio

Flavio Alves Biography

Flavio Alves is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on November 30, 1969 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Flavio Pimenta Alves (born 30 November 1969) is an Brazilian screenwriter, writer and film director living of America from 1998. His films often have elderly characters as the main protagonists. The most well-known of his films is the movie The Garden Left Behind starring Michael Madsen, Ed Asner and Carlie Guevara.

In the year 2018, Alves was selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center to join the Artist Academy. The program was created to assist the new generation of filmmakers coming from different backgrounds as they build their careers and develop an audience within the film community.

Flavio Alves lives in Forest Hills, New York. In April of this year, Alves became a US citizen. In 2013, he is part of the National Board of Review. in 2012 Grupo Gay da Bahia is the longest-running LGBTQ advocacy group in Brazil gave Alves alongside others with an honorary title in recognition of his efforts and sacrifices towards his fellow members of the LGBTQ community.

Flavio Alves Net Worth

Flavio Alves is one of the richest Film Director from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Flavio Alves 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alves was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was a member of the Brazilian navy for a few years before relocating in America after 1997. He was granted asylum as a political activist within America in 1998. United States in 1998 based on his political views and sexual orientation. This was after writing the book Toque de Silencio (“Call to Silence” 1997) in which he described his experience as a gay man within the Brazilian navy. The request was granted as according to Alves the book, he was subjected to death threats after the publication of his book. While a variety of human rights organizations, LGBT activists, and former Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy have backed his claims however, it also caused a split in members of the Brazilian homosexual community. He was a student at Columbia University in New York City where he received the degree of an undergraduate in political Science. In the beginning of 2000, he was an assistant to the then-Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and the then-New York senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY).

In 2007 Alves quit politics and enrolled in New York University to study film production. In his time at NYU, he wrote and directed the film Even in My Dreams, which won the Technisphere Award from NYU for the top student film and was shown in a variety of film festivals across the globe. The film also won the of the Golden Palm Award at the 2009 Mexico International Film Festival, as well as the Golden Ace Award at the 2009 Las Vegas International Film Festival. In June of 2010, Flavio released his short film The Secret Friend, starring Viola Harris and Siobhan Fallon as the main characters. The film won numerous nominations and awards after its premier during The Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2010. It was voted Best of the Fest. Alves directed the award-winning short film Tom in America (2014) featuring Academy Award nominees, Burt Young and Sally Kirkland, has been presented at over 140 film festivals around the world and was also shown on the cable channel HereTV.

Flavio’s most recent film, The Garden Left Behind, is his first feature-length project and stars Michael Madsen and Ed Asner. The film was well received in the media, and was widely praised for having a strong trans representation in front of and behind the camera, including the lead, Carlie Guevara. The Garden Left Behind premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2019, where it won the Audience Award.

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Who is Flavio Alves Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Flavio Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Flavio Alves celebrates birthday on November 30 of every year.