Aleixo Gonçalves

Co-producer/co-director Aleixo Gonçalves was born in Chile, left with his family during the Pinochet dictatorship, was raised in Venezuela, and returned to Chile after the dictatorship. From 1994 to 2005 he produced, directed and edited nationally and internationally viewed television programs for Chilean National Television-TV Chile, Santiago, Chile, including music video programs, travel programs, and short documentaries. He came to the US in 2005 and over the last few years has begun to find film work as an online editor, editor, assistant editor and cinematographer. A partial list of his documentary credits in the US include:  On line editing, graphics and credit design for Ragiñ Epu Mapu: Voices of Elders & Youth directed by John Knoop and Karina Epplain, online editing, and creation of film festival trailer for Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, directed by Peter Esmonde, assistant editor for Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi, directed by Quique Cruz & Marilyn Mulford. Editor online series “The North Pole” (in its second season) about gentrification in Oakland, CA; A partial list of his film credits in Chile include: Producer, director and editor Niña Morena y Agil, a tribute to Pablo Neruda ; editor What’s Left of Paradise, a musical documentary of the experiences of four Chilean saxophonists traveling through Costa Rica., director Arquitectura Religiosa, a series of short documentaries about the architecture of churches and cathedrals in Santiago, Chile; director Latin Rock, two eighty-minute special programs on Chilean rock music.