Alexis Dos Santos

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Alexis Dos Santos
Born1974 (age 4849)
NationalityArgentine
Occupation(s)Film director and producer, screenwriter and editor
Known forPart of the New Queer Cinema movement
Notable work Glue

Alexis Dos Santos (born 1974) is an Argentine film director and producer, screenwriter and editor. He has also shot a number of short and directed music videos. He is considered part of the New Queer Cinema movement.

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Dos Santos studied in Buenos Aires and Barcelona before relocating to London in 1998, where he attended the National Film and Television School. He started filming short films like Meteoritos, Watching Planes, Axolotll, Snapshots and Sand. [1]

In 2006, he wrote and directed his debut long feature Glue (full title Glue - Historia adolescente en medio de la nada) about young musicians in drug use and sexual exploration. [2] It won a number of prizes including the MovieZone Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2007 In 2009, he directed Unmade Beds [3] that was featured at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and at Febiofest 2010. [4] The film was partially funded by the UK Film Council and was nominated for Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema / Dramatic in Sundance Festival. For the Cinema Reloaded project, in 2011 he directed the short film Random Strangers. [5]

Filmography

Directing and screenwriting

Feature films
Shorts

Editing

Producing

Acting

Music videos

(Selective)

Awards and nominations

Glue
Unmade Beds

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References

  1. "IFFR: Alexis Dos Santos biography". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  2. "Film - Movie Review - Glue". Slantmagazine.com. 2007-03-01.
  3. Filmmaker Magazine: Alexis Dos Santos - Unmade Beds
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-03. Retrieved 2015-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "IFFR: Alexis Dos Santos reveals first dialogue". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-07.