
FAKE LIVE
Fake Live
Alexandre Paes Leme
Brazil
2020
Installation and Interactive Art
Short Film
Fake Live is a web series that follows the daily life of actress and influencer Fernanda Paes Leme during quarantine, from the point of view of her cell phone, whether on the front or rear camera or on the image of the device's own screen, browsing through conversations, social networks and other apps. After seeing the success of the lives and content created by other artists in isolation, Fernanda begins to feel pressure from her agent, her fans and famous colleagues to create something new on the web, but her desire is to study William Shakespeare's Hamlet from a female point of view. Everything changes when Fernanda receives a message from a friend saying that she is loving her Live on Instagram. When trying to access the @fepaesleme account, she discovers that someone has changed her password. Through an alternative account, Fernanda accesses her profile and sees a lookalike pretending to be her in the live broadcast. Fernanda then begins to try to investigate the lookalike and herself in order to try to recover her own identity.
general information
edition
7th ECRÃ Festival
date and
time
Botafogo Station
Instagram Festival ECRÃ
01/07
29/06 - 09/07
9pm
10am
duration in min
Variable Duration, 9 episodes
debut
classification
indicative
12 years / Not recommended for children under twelve years old / Not recommended for children under twelve years old
content
shortly
tags
comedy drama, metafiction, quarantine, thriller, web
trailer
Alexandre Paes Leme
With a background in theater and independent film collectives, Alexandre began his career behind the camera, writing, directing and producing the web series “Fake Live”, which has over 7 million views and won 14 festival awards. In December 2020, he wrote, directed and produced the web series “Inimigo Oculto”, which received 9 nominations at Rio Webfest and was selected at festivals in Germany and Russia. Also in 2020, he directed and wrote the script for Estúdio Traça’s Fashion Film for the 47th edition of Casa de Criadores.
In 2021, he wrote the script for the Branded Content Series “Carnaval vem de Dentro” by Amstel with Bloco Casa comigo and wrote, directed and produced the Branded Content Series “Love Stories” in partnership with Renner and Instagram Brasil. In 2022, he wrote and directed the music video and visual album for the band Suricato. In 2023, he directed the web series "Carnaval" by Paolla Oliveira, a project that had more than 24 million views on the original profile alone.
As an actor, he participated in more than 10 plays, including “FuenteOvejuna” directed by Juliano Barone and which was nominated for the Shell Award and the Coca-Cola Femsa Award, in addition to representing Brazil at the 2018 International Caribbean Festival. In the audiovisual industry, he acted in the Netflix Original series, winner of the International Emmy “Ninguém Tá Olhar” by Daniel Rezende, in addition to dozens of short films, advertising campaigns and music videos.

more information
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