Alexandre Britto is a writer, actor, director, and acting coach. He holds a degree in Performing Arts from the Martins Penna Drama School, a Bachelor's in Literature, and a postgraduate degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Language. He also trained at Globo TV’s Actors Workshop and completed various specialized courses in theater and film, including the ReiaTor program and workshops focused on minimalist performance techniques. His debut feature film as writer-director, *No Silêncio* (2024), won 10 awards - where some jury includes Oscar and BAFTA-winning professionals. Britto won: Best Debut Filmmaker and Best Director with In Silence. Below is the trajectory of "No Silêncio" by Alexandre Britto, produced by Visom Digital and LAB - Alexandre Britto Laboratory. As a screenwriter and actor, he contributed to the short film *Drinks, Desires and Deviations* (dir. Adolpho Knauth), selected for festivals such as Cine-Sul (Rio de Janeiro), Câmera Mundo (Rotterdam), Maringá, and Cabo Frio. Britto has directed ten stage plays, eight of which he also wrote — including *The Gnawing Desire of Rats*, *Asdrúbal’s Mind*, *Belle Époque*, *It’s All a Joke*, *The City Without a Circus and the Talking Dog*, and *The Angel and the Mirror*. He has performed in over 20 theatrical productions, including lead roles in *Much Ado About Nothing* (Shakespeare) and *I Love You* (Moíses Bittencourt), and appeared in *A Woman Clothed with the Sun* by Ariano Suassuna, directed by Mayra Jeanysse. As an acting coach, Britto has worked on award-winning shorts such as *#Feique* (11 nominations at the Gramado Film Festival) and *Magnifying Lens* (*Lente de Aumento* – Best Fiction at FestFlávio and Guarnicê Festival), both directed by Pedro Lucas and Alexandre Mandarino. He also coached actors for the feature *Behind the Sky* (*Por Trás do Céu*), directed by Caio Sóh, which won awards at Cine PE, and collaborated with O2 Filmes under the direction of Fred Luz. Over the past ten years, he has focused intensively on actor training, developing methods centered on listening, presence, and psychological minimalism. He recently acted in *The Life of Each One* (*A Vida de Cada Um*), directed by Murilo Salles, set for release in 2025. His short story *Eternal Farewell* (*Eterna Despedida*) was published in the collection *Some Contemporary Short Story Writers* by Uapê Publishing. For Alexandre, the scene is the matter one lives with every day — through the lens, the word, or the body in motion.
