Flavio Alves

Flavio Alves is a Brazilian-American gay filmmaker known for The Garden Left Behind (2019), a deeply humane film about a Mexican transgender woman and her grandmother navigating life as undocumented immigrants in New York City, which won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Alves has spoken about the importance of telling stories about trans immigrants — a population rarely seen in American independent film — and about the intersection of trans rights and immigration justice.