Mar B. Alves

Screenwriter

Köln, Germany

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November 2017

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About Mar

Mar B. Alves (*1989), originally from Brazil, completed their Master’s in Serial Storytelling at the ifs international film school in Cologne and specializes in writing serialized content, in German, English, and Portuguese.

Mar has developed movies and series proposals/scripts for German production companies like Schiwago Film, Bavaria Fiction, U5 Filmproduktion, and UFA Fiction. They gained experience as a staff writer on the long-running German daily soap »Berlin – Tag & Nacht« writing 14 episodes for its 8th season, and worked as a junior producer for G5 fiction (ZDF Enterprises), assisting multi-award- winning Producer Uwe Kersken.

Mar’s screenplays have received recognition in several screenwriting competitions, e.g. Austin Film Festival, ScreenCraft Scifi & Fantasy Screenplay Contest, The Golden Script Competition, Table Read My Screenplay. Their series »Lauf, wenn du kannst« has been selected for 2020’s First Movie Plus program, a launch pad for young writers and producers created by the Bavarian Film Centre in Munich.
Before focusing on screenwriting, Mar wrote and directed a socio-critical theater play named »Shitty Shitty Plem Plem«, which was performed at the Pasinger Fabrik in Munich and is now being distributed by Zuckerhut Theaterverlag. During their Bachelor’s in Theatre Studies, Mar made several (particularly experimental) short films. »Jump Lola, jump!« and »Substage« were both nominated for the AABER Award 2012 - a cultural award for young artists in Bavaria.

Mar moreover worked in the film industry as Sound Editor in films such as »Wir waren Könige« (Best Narrative Feature - Austin Film Festival 2014, MFG Star - Baden Baden TV Film Festival 2014) and »Der Bunker« (Best Picture - Fantastic Fest 2015, Best Film - Palmares Mauvais Genre Festival 2015).

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Non-Binary

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7 minutes and about 20 seconds Drama A pair of teenagers rocked by the trauma of seeing someone they loved murdered during a school shooting cope in wildly different ways, trying to navigate the enmity that existed before the killing.
(In)fertile Ground Comedy When his family forces Deus to pay rent at home, he is forced to take a job at his father’s fertility clinic - a place where patients (or clients) are trying to have children, to start families, also the place where patients masturbate and are inseminated.
Give me that Becky Sci-fi ⋄ Drama In an attempt to preserve her image, an aging model decides to train the set of clones created of her asa publicity stunt, each with their own agenda.
P. Leasure Sci-fi A new security measure has been implanted into humans that stimulates an orgasm while identifyingthe criminal when one is under attack, however the system only seems to be creating higher crime ratesand dysfunctional relationships.
Waitopo Bay Drama When the corrupt leader of an island nation cuts funding, a frustrated college student vents on socialmedia, but is unprepared for the personal and professional consequences as he gets caught up in thestart of a revolution.
I would've lied to you until we died Romance ⋄ Comedy A compulsive liar struggles to maintain a healthy relationship while trying to better herself.

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