— BY Alejandro Landes
Paralyzed from the waist down by a stray police bullet, the title character in Alejandro Landes’s award-winning film spends his days selling minutes on his cell phone, flirting with his comely neighbor – and secretly plotting his revenge. Landes worked on the film for five years, creating a tale that joins the most intimate details of Porfirio’s day-to-day life with an astonishing recreation of his attempt to hijack an airplane.
Alejandro Landes (Director) was born in S√£o Paulo, Brazil. He studied literature, economics and architecture at Brown University, then went on to become a journalist and television writer. His first film, the documentary Cocalero, premiered at Sundance in 2007 and opened theatrically in more than ten countries. With Porfirio, Landes was a fellow at the Cinéfondation Residence and the Sundance Institute.
Porfirio is a Cinereach grantee.