Luis Carlos de Alencar

História

Luis Carlos de Alencar is from Bahia, Brazil, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Postgraduate in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at M_EIA, from Cape Verde Art Institute; Postgraduate in Communications and Image from PUC-Rio; Graduated in Law from Universidade Federal da Bahia. Partner in the production company Couro de Rato, directed Contagem Regressiva (Countdown), which received an award in Rio WF 2016 for Best Documentary and Best Soundtrack, was also nominated for Best Script, was shown in several countries, received an honored mention in Festcine Amazonia and Best Documentary: 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival – Chestertown/ United States; directed the documentary Bombadeira (The pain of the beauty), taken to more than 30 national and foreign festivals and laureated with the award from RedeTrans - 10 years of Bombadeira, for the work contribution to the transexual community. Currently directs the feature film "Não é a primeira vez que lutamos pelo nosso amor", or as translated "It's not the first time we fight for our love", about the LGBT community and the military dictatorship; the short film "Homens Invisíveis" (Invisible Men), about transexual men and the prison system; and the ESPN series "Corpos Periféricos" (Peripheric Bodies). Worked as Assistant Director for 5 documentary series in several channels as Globosat – Canal HD+, TV Brasil, Canal Curta!, Canal Brasil, CineBrasil TV and in more than 50 jobs in several production companies in feature films, medium and short films.

Filmes

Não é a Primeira Vez que Lutamos pelo Nosso Amor
Director
The documentary tells the stories of persecution and violence when the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship acted against the LGBT population and how this same group constituted its resistance, becoming a fundamental subject of the redemocratization process. The coup of 64 did not establish this prejudice, but, during this period, the LGBT population was considered the enemy of the traditional family, morals and good customs.
Homens invisíveis
Director
This short documentary explores the situation of the incarcerated male trans population and their health problems generated by the gender binarism that dominates the prisons.
A Primeira Pedra
Production Executive
Documentário investiga a onda de linchamentos no Brasil e mostra como essa violência, praticada muitas vezes por pessoas que se consideram ‘cidadãos de bem’, tornou-se cotidiana.
Contagem Regressiva
Director
A cidade do Rio de Janeiro foi dilacerada pela realização dos megaeventos. Durante a preparação para os Jogos Olímpicos, toda a já histórica tradição de violência de Estado se intensificou na cidade maravilhosa: desde o anuncio da escolha da cidade como sede olímpica, em 2009, somente na capital, 77.206 pessoas foram removidas de suas casas, o "choque de ordem" instaurado pela prefeitura usou a mão pesada da guarda municipal para perseguir camelôs, ónibus que saiam de comunidades populares rumo às praias da Zona Sul tiveram linhas extintas ou encurtadas e crianças e jovens negros revistados em blitz policiais eram levados para a delegacia. Autoridades do Rio de Janeiro assumiram o saque, o racismo e o apartheid sem qualquer constrangimento.
Vozerio
O filme acompanha o processo de criação de coletivos com novas formas de insurgência. A performance dos corpos presentes nas ruas produz um vozerio onde um grito começa antes do outro terminar.
Raça
Associate Producer
Documentary on ethnic relations in Brazil.
Fragmentos de Mindelo
Director
Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. Throughout the time generations of writers, painters, singers and intellectual people were the full expression of Cape Verdean art and way of thinking. Fragments of its inhabitants’ lives reveal the force of its history, the beauty of its creativity and, above all, the resistance against the scourge of life in Mindelo, a meeting point of various nationalities.
Cinderelas, Lobos e um Príncipe Encantado
Producer
Milhares de mulheres viajam para o exterior com o sonho de encontrar seus "príncipes encantados" estrangeiros, se tornando peças de um sistema complexo de turismo sexual e tráfico de pessoas. O documentário registra as intenções e experiências das mulheres que saem do Brasil, ao mesmo tempo que procura quem realmente se beneficia desses arranjos.
Bombadeira
Director
Through a succession of testimonies and life stories, we are able to delve into the universe of transvestites and to become familiarized with a little-known reality, far from the glamour and the stereotypes that have been imposed to them.