Flavio Alves

Flavio Alves is a Brazilian film director. He was granted political asylum in the US in 1998. Before becoming a filmmaker, Alves worked as an assistant to then-New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. In 2016, Flavio pioneered the use of eBay as a crowdfunding platform by selling thousands of donated items online to help to finance his film. 

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