Caru Alves de Souza

Caru Alves de Souza was born in 1979 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a director, scriptwriter and producer. She is Tata Amaral's partner in Tangerina Entretenimento, a production company based in Sao Paulo. Underage (2014), her debut fictional feature, had its world premiere at 61st San Sebastian IFF, was awarded Best Film at Rio IFF in 2013, and it was licensed by HBO Latin America. Her 2nd feature, My Name is Baghdad, had it's world premiere at 70th Berlim International Film Festival and received grants from Tribeca Film Institute's Latin America Fund and from Ibermedia Programme for its development. Her first short film, Familly Affair (2011), had its world premiere at Frameline Film Festival and it got distribution in DVD in the UK by Peccadillo Pictures. Alves de Souza also directed two medium length documentaries for the Brazilian channel TV Cultura, the short film The World of Ulim and Oilut (2012), and 10 episodes of the documentary TV series Causando na Rua for CINEBRASiLTV. She is also a member of "Coletivo Vermelha", a Sao Paulo based group of female audiovisual professionals, and was the curator of the film event "The Dardene's Brothers Humanist Cinema" for Bank of Brazil's Cultural Centers in the cities of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, em 2016