Alexandre Fortes
Directing
Biography
Alexandre de Oliveira Fortes (2000, Santiago – RS, Brazil) is a Advertising student at UFSM, director and screenwriter in training. Passionate about audiovisuals and literature, he moves between experimental cinema and low-budget narratives, exploring everyday life, memory, and the uncanny.
Known For
The Conecta Project: Mental Health at UFSM involved the production of an institutional video aimed at promoting mental health within the university environment, focusing on informing and raising awareness among students and staff about emotional well-being practices and care.
Conecta: Saúde mental UFSM
A documentary that revives the memory of the Technical Industrial School of Santa Maria through the voices of former teachers and retired staff, revealing not only how these individuals helped shape and strengthen the institution, but also how CTISM marked and transformed their lives, intertwining individual destinies and collective memory into a living portrait of technical education in Brazil.
Quem fez o CTISM
After moving into an impersonal university apartment, a lonely young man begins to notice a dark stain spreading across the walls.
Morto
Between the end of one session and the start of the next, the collective desire to bring a film club to life collides with the ghosts of precariousness and the decay of cultural spaces.