Director

João Alves

Directing

Career Snapshot

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.2

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 1177583

IMDb ID: nm4140406

Known for: Directing

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2010 - 2024

Years active: 15

Frequent jobs

Co-Director (1)Director (1)Script Consultant (1)

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Biography

João Alves has worked in animation since 2006, beginning as an animator on Revolta dos Pastéis de Nata and Ilha das Cores. In 2010, he directed Bats in the Belfry, which premiered at MOTELx and won Best Portuguese Horror Short Film. He later studied animation at the University of Texas at Austin and co-directed a trailer for The Extraordinary Adventures of Dog Mendonça and Pizzaboy II. A member of COLA since 2017, João has written the feature script Mindscape, co-directed the feature O Natal do Bruno Aleixo and is developing the feature film adaptation of O Baile (graphic novel).

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