Aly Muritiba

Born in Mairi, a small town in the interior of Bahia, Brazil where there are no movie theaters to this day, Muritiba was already an adult when he first plunged into the darkness of a theater to watch a movie. The son of a truck driver and a housewife, the filmmaker studied History in São Paulo, and later moved to Curitiba, where, without finding a job, he applied for a job in the State Justice System, where he worked as a jailer for seven years. While still working as a jailer, Muritiba learned that he could have his working hours in the public service credited if he was enrolled in some college course. He then went to study Cinema and, between one class and another, decided to merge the two worlds through which he passed: that of jail and that of the art of filmmaking. This is how his Prison Trilogy was born, made up of two short films and a documentary feature, projects that served as a release from prison life and the gateway to his cinematographic career. With stints at Sundance ("Rust," 2018), Venice ("Tarantula," 2015, "Private Desert" 2021), San Sebastian ("To My Dead Beloved," 2015, "Rust," 2018) and Cannes - Critics Week ("Quadrangle," 2013), the films written and directed by Aly Muritiba have won over 200 awards at film festivals. For TV and streaming channels, Muritiba has directed the series "The Hypnotizer" - S02 (HBO), "Jailers" S02 (Globo), "Freitas Brothers" (Space), "Brotherhood" (Netflix), "The Evandro Case" (Globoplay) and "Cangaço Novo"(Amazon Prime Video). In 2013 his short film "The Factory" was on the Oscar shortlist. In 2021, in addition to directing "The Evandro Case," the true crime series nominated for International Emmy Awards, Aly released the feature-films "Jesus Kid", (Best Direction and Best Screenplay Awards in the Festival of Gramado and "Private Desert" (Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival and Brazilian representative in the 2022 Oscars race).