Flavia Fontes

Flavia Fontes has been making award-winning documentaries for fifteen years. She directed, produced, and edited Forbidden Wedding, a documentary about a paraplegic man in Brazil who was prohibited by the Catholic Church from marrying his fiancée because of his sexual impotence. It screened at the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival in 2001. It received an award of excellence at the Biennial BRASA Film Festival in Brazil, Honorable Mention at the Philadelphia International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Projections International Film Festival in Toronto.

Forbidden Wedding has been screened in more than twenty  film festivals in the United States, Europe and South America. It was broadcast on the Sundance Channel in May of 2005 and on Link Television in April 2007. Fontes received the "Someone to Watch Award" from CineWomen in 2004. Flavia Fontes produced and directed Living with Chimpanzees: Portrait of a Family.  It has received many accolades, including the Communicator Award for Excellence in Documentary, Director's Citation at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. Living with Chimpanzees was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in the New Documentary Series and was broadcast on Nippon Television in Japan, on the Discovery Channel in Canada, and in over eighteen countries throughout the world.

Some of her editing credits include:  Terror at Home: Domestic Violence in America  directed by Academy Award winning Maryann De Leo for Lifetime Television;  Forgetting Aphrodite, a drama about a teenager's vacation in the island of Cyprus; Rights for All, for Amnesty International; and the feature-length documentary,  I Will Never Be the Same, about a man's battle with prostate cancer.