Oscar Rodrigues Alves
| Oscar Rodrigues Alves | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 29, 1969 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Occupation | Film director, editor, producer, screenwriter, web entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Home town | São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil |
Oscar Rodrigues Alves (also known as Oscar Rodrigues Alves Neto), born September 29, 1969, is a Brazilian film director, editor, producer and web entrepreneur. He is a founder of MTV Brasil as well as the writer, editor and director of Titãs – A Vida Até Parece Uma Festa (Titãs - Life Even Looks Like a Party), a 2008 Brazilian documentary about the rock band Titãs from its inception. The documentary was the recipient of the 2009 MTV Video Music Brazil Best Musical Documentary or Movie award. He also won the 2002 Video of the Year, Best Rock Video and Viewer’s Choice for Titãs' Epitáfio. He has won 10 MTV Video Music Brazil since 2001.
Alves’ great-grandfather, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, was the 5th President of Brazil. His grandfather and namesake, Oscar Rodrigues Alves, was a politician, a doctor and fostered Alves’ pursuit of a career in film. He was one of the sponsors of the 1922 Week of Modern Art that took place in São Paulo, bringing together important Brazilian and foreign painters, sculptors, writers, musicians in São Paulo at the Theatro Municipal, the city's opera theatre.
When his son Francisco — Alves’ father — was born in 1928, he bought a 16mm Eastman Kodak film camera to shoot his baby. Francisco would later continue this and film his children (Patricia, Angela, Flavia and Oscar) on 16 mm and Super8. When Oscar was born, the family owned numerous cameras. Film cameras were Alves' first toys.
Alves graduated in journalism by the University of São Paulo in 1990. His career on TV began in 1987, while still studying, as assistant director of Rede Bandeirantes’ TV news program Jornal de Vanguarda. He later was a reporter for Folha de S. Paulo, a Brazilian daily newspaper, and editor at Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão's Jornal da Noite.
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