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Luis Carlos de Alencar

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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.

Фильмы

Não é a Primeira Vez que Lutamos pelo Nosso Amor

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.

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

A Primeira Pedra

Production Executive

The First Stone exposes the terrible face of intolerance, where angry lynch mobs take justice into their own hands. The documentary tells the story of lynching victims and investigates the shocking growth of this crime in Brazil where one lynching is registered everyday - the highest rate worldwide. A narrative with engaging characters and dramatic stories of lives that have been devastated by this violent trend in mob rule.

Contagem Regressiva

Contagem Regressiva

Director

New forms of insurgency and unrest on the fragments of the actions of some artists and activists. The recording of confrontation has its strongest expression in the performance. We see echoing clashes in a series of images. The cry begins before the other ends.

Associate Producer

Documentary on ethnic relations in Brazil.

Fragmentos de Mindelo

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.

Cinderellas, Wolves and a Prince Charming

Cinderellas, Wolves and a Prince Charming

Producer

Around 900 thousand people are trafficked a year for international borders only for sexual exploitation. However, despite all the dangers, young Brazilian women to enter the world of sex tourism, believe that they will change their lives and their dream of finding a Charming Prince. A minority find a great love and get married. The film goes from the Brazilian Northeast to Berlin seeking to understand the sexual as well racial imaginary and power of young southern Cinderellas and northern wolves.

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.