João Silvério Trevisan

João Silvério TREVISAN (1944) was studying to be a priest as an adolescent, and later started organising small screenings of films at his seminary. After leaving the church, he joined João Batista de Andrade, Francisco Ramalho Jr. and Sidney de Paiva Lopes at Tecla Productions, working in various capacities on many films for the São Paulo-based production outfit. In 1970 he directed Orgy: or The Man Who Gave Birth, which was banned by the military regime, an occurrence that led Trevisan to quit filmmaking (he would briefly return as a screenwriter, for Jean Garret’s The Woman Who Invented Love).
After returning from travels abroad in the mid-1970s, Trevisan became an activist for gay rights in tandem with his newly initiated career as a novelist. Today he is primarily known as a writer and professor of literature.