Suite Dreams

LUNA ALKALAY has worked with the moving image since 1969 and is the director of MaDaM Editora. She directed and wrote the short film "Sangria" (1972) and wrote and co-directed the shorts "Arrasta a Bandeira Colorida" (1970), "Lacrimosa" (1970) and "Ladeiras de Salvador" (1975). She wrote, produced and directed the features "Cristais de Sangue" (1974-1975), "Estados Unidos do Brasil" (2004) and "Trópico de Leão" (2024). She received screenwriting awards from the São Paulo State Department of Culture for the treatments "Por Trás das Câmeras" and "Planeta Luz". She is the author of the book "Minha Mãe Inventada" and also worked on the editing of "Sheila Mann – A Culinária do Líbano a Israel", "Vi como Cego Vê" and "Cinema É Sonho".

FELIPE ABRAMOVICTZ directed the features "As Imagens de Aury" (2017) and "Valsa de Julho" (2019), and shorts such as "Cartas à memória" (2015), "Onde se vê dia, veja-se noite" (2020), "A Luta Livre de Um Cineasta" (2024) and "A Vênus de Cetim" (2025). A doctoral candidate in Multimedia at Unicamp, he holds a master's in Audiovisual Communication and a degree in Communication and Multimedia. He works on research, memory and audiovisual preservation, with projects on Expedito Lima, Juan A. Siringo, Otoniel Santos Pereira, Laurie Gane, Antônio Garcia, Marcos Bertoni and Pedro Merege, which have led to programmes at institutions including the Cinemateca Brasileira. He has also curated programmes devoted to André Luiz Oliveira and Luna Alkalay. He is cinematographer and co-writer of the feature "Trópico de Leão" and coordinated the restoration of "Cristais de Sangue" (1974-1975). He is the author of the books "Cinema É Sonho" and "As Fatias de Pão".

ALFREDO SUPPIA is Associate Professor in the Department of Multimedia, Film and Communication at Unicamp, where he teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Multimedia and on the doctoral programme in Social Sciences. He holds a doctorate and a habilitation in fields related to film history and theory, and has experience in audiovisual production. A film critic, he researches the relations between cinema, science fiction and technology. He is the author of "A Metrópole Replicante: Construindo um Diálogo entre Metropolis e Blade Runner" and "Atmosfera Rarefeita: A Ficção Científica no Cinema Brasileiro", and editor of "Cinema(s) Independentes: Cartografias para um Fenômeno Audiovisual Global", "Zelimir Zilnik e a Black Wave", "Cartografias para a ficção científica mundial: cinema e literatura" and "Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema", the last of these with Ewa Mazierska.

ISABELLA CHRISTOSTOMO is a Brazilian communications specialist, filmmaker and art director, a graduate of the University of Brasília (UnB). She works on authorial and institutional audiovisual projects, with experience in screenwriting, art direction, motion design, cinematography and editing. Her work investigates the relations between aesthetics, narrative and the experimentation with audiovisual language. She also develops projects that move between experimental cinema, illustration and visual research. She is currently taking a postgraduate course in Audiovisual Creation at FAAP, deepening her study of film language and creative processes. Her artistic interest centres on hybrid narratives and the exploration of experimental formats.