Roy Álvarez has a degree in sociology from the University of Costa Rica. He has studied Motion Pictures at Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje, at its Moving Image Department, an institution that offers training in video production. He has also studied at the Program of Cultural Identity, Arts and Technology of the School of Arts at Universidad Nacional, where he honed his skills in scriptwriting, digital sound editing and moving image editing.

Besides his work at Hefestos Films, Roy Álvarez worked as an Assistant Professor at the Deparment of Sociology at Universidad Nacional. At the same university, he also worked as an Artistic Producer for the Program of Cultural Identity, Arts and Technology at the School of Arts, where he was in charge of developing video and time-based media projects.

Currently, he is a fellow graduate student in New Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

For a full résumé of his work, free feel to request a copy at: info@hefestosfilms.com

LABERINTOS

Synopsis
Reality is a labyrinth, a game in which each of us judges what is real and what is fiction.

PIRATAS

Synopsis
Necessity is the mother of invention. In Escazú, a suburb in Costa Rica, that is the daily story of retired heads of families- including females-, former government employees, and elderly people, who have created their own characters behind a steering wheel. “The PIRATAS”, as illegal taxi drivers are referred to in Costa Rica, now represent an ever-increasing group, totaling more than 600 in Escazú alone. When life starts sliding downhill people reinvent their own lives. PIRATAS is a story about that reinvention and the daily battle for survival.

"PIRATAS" in the Media

Roy was interviewed in "Lunes de Cinematéca" (Mondays for Cinematheque), a T.V. program devoted to motion pictures and moving image in Costa Rica.