Alejandro Bellame Palacios

Alejandro Bellame Palacios (Caracas, Venezuela). Is an Italian-Venezuelan writer, producer and director. Graduated from Social Communication at UCAB 1986. He has performed as Director and Scriptwriter in different long and short documentaries for the last 30 years. He made screenplay and direction workshops with Jaime Chavarri, Jacque Spagne, Senel Paz y Jean-Claude Carrière. For three years, he was President of the National authors association of Venezuela (ANAC for its words in Spanish), whereby he worked in the draft of the new National Cinematography Law passed in 2005. He had also taught Cinema Direction at UCAB and National School of Cinema (Caracas, Venezuela) He wrote, produced and directed the short film Fosa Común, 2001 Fosa común (1998) which was awarded in international festivals, namely: Dresden, Trieste, Bahia and La Habana; as well as with National Awards such as ANAC, CONAC CNAC's quality awards. His first long feature film El Tinte de la Fama, 2008 The Color of Fame (2008) was Venezuela's entry submission for Academy Awards "Best foreign film" category, as well it was his second long feature film El Rumor de las Piedras, 2011, The Rumble of the Stones (2011) which also received several awards in international films festivals. His third long-feature film Dirección Opuesta, based on the book novel from venezuelan writer Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles Blue Label / Etiqueta Azul, is on production.