Flavio Alves

Flavio Pimenta Alves is a writer screenwriter and film director resident in America since 1998 His movies consistently feature elderly characters as protagonists Alves was born in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and served the Brazilian navy for several years before coming to America in 1997 He was granted political asylum in the United States in 1998 based on political opinion and sexual orientation after he wrote the book Toque de Silêncio Call to Silence 1997 describing his life as a gay man in the Brazilian navy