Aly Muritiba

Directing • 1979-02-20 • Mairi, Bahia, Brazil

Aly Muritiba (Mairi, February 20, 1979) is a Brazilian filmmaker, winner of the Global Filmmaking Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with the screenplay for the feature film "The Man Who Killed My Loved One" and his short film "A Factory "was a semi-finalist for the 2013 Oscar, in the best short live-action category, being left out of the final list of the five nominees to win the statuette. The filmmaker was born in the interior of Bahia and in 1998 moved to São Paulo to study History at USP. Soon after, he moved to Curitiba with the intention of attending Communication and Culture at UTFPR and Cinema and TV at the Faculty of Arts of Paraná.