Director Biography

Winner of the African Diaspora Pride Award - Literature Category - FLIDAM 2022. Educated at UERJ, actor, producer, screenwriter and filmmaker with training at Centro Afro Carioca de Cinema Zózimo Bulbul and Escola de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro, he has shown films in more than 30 countries on four continents. Winner of the Best International Short Film in the Caribbean, 10 Honorable Mentions from the Jury at festivals in Brazil, África and Europe. Challeng Latinx21 Award in Los Angeles, USA. Creator of the Experimental Filmes collective focused on human rights. Alek is a representative Brazilian filmmaker of the African diaspora of Mozambique. Black, gay and natural from the suburb of Rio de Janeiro in São João de Meriti. Winner of the Pretas Potências Award (black bridges) in the Audiovisual category and the FLIDAM Pride of the African Diaspora Award in the Literature category (for original screenplays for cinema).

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Director Statement

I was the winner of the FUNARJ Lab Curta Award, through my script "DOLL'S TORTURATION - Como Matar Uma Boneca". This award financed the production of this film, which ended on December 31, 2022 and will premiere in 2023 at the festivals that select it.

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This film brings symbolisms related to the past and the present. References such as the coffee beans on the doll's bed, related to Brazilian slaves who were forced to work in the fields and the torn and upside-down Brazilian flag, representing Brazilian extremists who used the flag to defend their prejudices against minorities. The film also reverses the values that colonialism implanted in our minds, that everyone who is Christian is good, and anyone who is of an African origin religion is evil.

A person's character cannot be defined by a religion. And that there is racism even within our own home and family.A message to denounce violence as quickly as possible, let us not be silent or conniving.