Flavio Alves is a Brazilian writer, producer, and film director. He was granted political asylum in the United States in 1998 based on his political opinion and sexual orientation. He attended Columbia University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science. After graduating, Alves worked as an assistant to then-New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY). In 2007, Flavio returned to school to study film production at New York University. Since then, he has written and directed four short films. His most recent completed project, Even in My Dreams, received the Technisphere Award from NYU for Best Student Film, Golden Palm Award at the 2009 Mexico International Film Festival, and the Golden Ace Award at the 2009 Las Vegas International Film Festival, and has been screened at a variety of film festivals all over the world.
In 2008, Flavio Alves founded Queens Picture LLC, a New York based film production company. As of 2009, he has begun post-production on his next short film, The Secret Friend, which is based on the short story of the same title by famous Brazilian author, João Silvério Trevisan.
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