Aly Muritiba

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).
Alya Elouissi

Alya Elouissi

Alya Elouissi is a professional actress, singer, songwriter and model who was born in 1995 in Ljubljana, Slovenia to Slovenian-Algerian parents. Recent credits include Barbie, Wonder Woman, Black Mirror and Silent Witness. She is fluent in 6 languages (English, French, Russian, Slovenian, Arabic, Serbian) and has an elementary knowledge of the Spanish, Italian and Polish languages. Alya has been acting since childhood when she joined a local theatre group. Shortly after she received an award for the most promising actress at the 6th Festival of Theatre Dreams 2007 in Ljubljana. Subsequently she attended various acting schools, workshops and seminars and took part in many theatre productions and short films. She began singing in choirs when she was 6 and progressed with voice coaching at the age of 11 which helped her to develop her unique voice, broad vocal range and stage presence. At the age of 19 she independently moved to London and started to work as an actress, singer, songwriter and model. She appeared in a lot of theatre productions, feature length and short films, TV series, commercials and music videos. In addition to her training in classical, pop, jazz, soul and musical theatre singing styles, she has also studied vocals at the Goldsmiths University of London - Music Department and, has extensive experience of live performing and studio session work as both a lead and backing vocalist. She represented Slovenia in 2016 at the 10th International Theatre Summer School of the Theatre Union of the Russian Federation in Moscow. In 2017 Alya was accepted into Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS (acting department, class of Mindaugas Karbauskis) from where she graduated in 2021. In 2017 she released her debut single The One and in 2019 her debut EP My Love. She got the 2nd Award for Best Female Singer at RBE Awards 2018 in London and won 3rd place at 24th International Music Festival FENS 2019 with her song "Iz Rusije z ljubeznijo". In 2022 she started working with Dallas Records Slovenia and released her new Slovenian single Dvignem krila in collaboration with Neisha. In 2023 Alya was a selected as an artist for the 42nd Festival Melodije morja in sonca, where she performed with her new summer single Valovim, which also became hit of the week on Radio Rai in Trieste, Italy. In 2024 Alya released her first afrobeat song Give Me Your Time in collaboration with London singer Romel and producer Slic Vic and became the first Slovenian female afrobeat artist in the history. The song made it to Top 100 Nigeria, Best of Nigeria 2024 and other charts and official Spotify playlists to name a few. Its music video was being played on MTV Base West, HipTV and SoundcityTV.

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