Elias Fontele Dourado

Elias Fontele Dourado is a tenured Philosophy professor (level III) and a PhD candidate in Communication at UnB. With a Master’s degree in Philosophy, he has published articles in both international and national journals. He is the author of the book Os tempos cerrados. He has won the Cultural Areas grant from the DF Cultural Support Fund three times and recently won a cultural research grant. He graduated in violin from the Brasília School of Music. He is the screenwriter of the feature film Hacker Leonilia, which was selected by Rumos Itaú Cultural 2023-2024, and was a script consultant for the short film version of the same project. He writes film articles for the Versátil Home Vídeo encyclopedia. Elias was a prominent winner in the 2015 Vivara Editora National New Poets Contest. He has published short stories and poems in various anthologies and has been selected in several contests, such as the 2023 Off-Flip short story award, the 2022 Kalytek Editora short story award, and the 2017 Abrace um Autor short story award from IFSP.