Filipe Galvon

Filipe Galvon was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 10th, 1981. Raised on working-class suburbs of the city, he graduated in Journalism with the short experimental film "Pull-Over", a student 5-length fiction adapted from Julio Cortazar's short story "Nadie tiene culpa". He worked as a writer and video director for TV before finish his Cinema studies at University of Paris in 2013, when he settled down in France. As a filmmaker, he directed and collaborated on several short fiction and documentary films. As a poetry writer, Galvon got his first book, "Animau", published in 2011 by 7Letras publishing house. The documentary "Encantado", co-produced by French public broadcast company Public Sénat, is his first feature film. Released in 2020 with the Audience Award of Best Film at Brasilia International Festival in Brazil, a short length of the project named "Encantado le Brésil Désenchanté" was screened on French local channel and festivals.