Q&A with Film Director Alex Levy-Heller
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Alex Levy-Heller
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Alex Levy-Heller is a Brazilian director who started out as a documentary filmmaker — his first work, O Relógio do Meu Avô was autobiographical. His other films include the documentary Macaco Tião — O Candidato do Povo. In 2009, Alex produced the documentary film Dzi Croquettes about the eponymous queer Brazilian theater group of the 1970s.
About event
Director Alex Levy-Heller and the Program Curator Egor Belikov will discuss the difficult destiny of the Jewish sex workers, who were coming to Brazil in search of a better life and husbands.