Contact: armandoluisalvarez at gmail dot com!

Follow me live at YouTube.com/iamisandisnt or Twitch.tv/iamisandisnt

My name is Armando Luis Alvarez. I produce independent film, mini documentaries, promo videos, music videos, and now video-games too.

I started my career as apprentice to Academy member Thomas Allen Harris (“Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”), who I continued to work for on “Digital Diaspora Family Reunion” and “Family Pictures USA” until 2016.

I’ve also worked as 1st assistant director and post-production coordinator on the prize-winning and bitcoin-financed art-house full-length film “Aimy in a Cage” (featured on the Wall Street Journal and The WTF Podcast with Marc Maron) with the notorious Crispin Glover, Paz de la Huerta, Disney’s Allisyn Ashley Arm and Academy-nominee Terry Moore.

After that I wrote, filmed, directed and produced my full-length debut film “Engrams” throughout the East Coast USA, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands in September of 2015 with local cast and crew.

I signed with Global Genesis Group (www.globalgenesisgroup.com) as IP Manager for “Engrams” and they distributed the film internationally on Amazon Prime – available in The U.S., U.K., Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Spain and India.

My photography has been published in color on the front page of The Calgary Herald and my film work has been screened in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Chicago Museum of American Art, in addition to several film festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Corinth, Nafplio, San Antonio, Kansas City, New Hope, Alexandria, Boston Underground, New Filmmakers NY, Santa Barbara and of course New Jersey International Film Festival.

IMDB me: www.imdb.me/armandoluisalvarez

Since June 2016 I have been teaching myself Unreal Engine and 3D modeling in Blender, in addition to MakeHuman and World Machine. I now have skills in Unreal Engine 5, physics vehicles, weight painting, animating, blueprint programming, debugging, C++ integration, animation blueprints/graphs, montages/blend-spaces/etc, multiplayer networking with Steam, complex inventory systems, save/load systems, haggling/bartering systems, procedural content tools, physically-based-rendering, technical art, material graphs, niagara and cascade particle effects systems, in-engine audio synchronized to accurate metronome, dynamic and static lighting, RTX settings for realtime rendering, basically you name it, I’ve worked with it in my efforts to produce a multiplayer RPG by myself, which I chronicle on www.YouTube.com/iamisandisnt.

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Unreal Engine

Interactive Audio/Visual Storytelling

After working freelance for ER Studios LLC, I was closely followed by their owner for any opportunity I could…

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This thing deserves its own post. Not only is it self-braking when nearing cliffs and certain flagged “unmovable objects,”…

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Contract work under NDA for a canceled Netflix project.

Due to the NDA there’s not much that can be shared…

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Team Lead at 5th Cell

Cross-platform Blueprint Programming in Unreal Engine. Working with both core systems and user-facing polish. Managed a team of 10…

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Freelance UI Work

Over the course of my freelance work, I had the opportunity to implement much fancier graphics for User Interface…

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Escape the Backrooms

The game has over 69k reviews and rests comfortably at Very Positive, both in Recent and All Reviews.

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Film

Feature Films, Short Films and Documentaries

Short film based on the works of Franz Kafka, filmed in Greece at the Corinth and Nafplion Film Festivals,…

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“Engrams” had its world premiere at the San Antonio Film Festival in August, 2017. In addition to screening at…

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Engrams is an independent full-length narrative film about a man who believes he can cure depression by triggering happy…

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For two years I worked as assistant director and post-production coordinator for the feature length indie film Aimy in a…

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During a walk in the woods, a man stumbles upon a gate blocked by a guard who refuses to…

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I couldn’t be prouder to have made my stake in the world of film with such an avant-garde piece…

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Music Videos

Live Music and Music Videos

I was hired to fix a skipping virtual music sampler/drum machine, which was not looping “in time” with itself….

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When Epic announced the Quartz Clock for Unreal Engine, I knew that Trent Reznor’s vision was now a possible…

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As soon as Quartz Clock went in to Unreal Engine, I knew I had to use it. Creating procedural…

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Filmed at dawn on the Neil Gaiman compound where Bob Dylan recorded “Bringing it All Back Home,” I filmed…

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Many thanks to the band and crew for putting on a great show and being so welcoming. Special thanks…

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I made this video entirely by myself as a short teaser for Original Text’s first EP. Filmed in Rutgers…

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News Journalism

Traditional and Digital News Journalism and Album Reviews

GDC 2018 Live Interviews

I attended GDC twice, and one of those times I endeavored to record some live, off-the-cuff interviews with any…

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Brooklyn-based Kayrock Screenprinting has multiple programs aimed at producing silkscreen prints, paper prints and books of art; however, the…

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Tory Van Wey pulls organic material from her daily life through a stream of consciousness process that lays mechanical…

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These fifteen 3,000-pound works of art on display in the New York City Ballet’s David H. Koch Theater at…

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Bodega Satellite’s 3D EP

With great experience comes great passion, which can make for great music. Such is the case for the New…

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Owl John Takes Flight

What happens when the routine, the lights, the sing-alongs all become too much for the pop artist? When Glasgow…

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Photography

From Performance to Portrait and Everything In Between

After spending a week with little-to-no sleep in Portland, OR for the world premier of Aimy in a Cage,…

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More beautiful selects emerging from the thousands of photos I took on tour with Moscow Ballet last Winter.  

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Incredible opening act took me by surprise as I was shooting photos for Verbicide Magazine. Not to be reckoned…

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I got the chance to shoot in this dimly lit bar in the back streets of New Brunswick’s downtown….

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Enlisted the service of makeup artist Marlene Rosenberg, utilizing my new white vinyl backdrop and some blue lighting gels….

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After a week of R&R it’s good to say that I’ve wrapped up a successful two months with the…

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Promotional

Commercial, Promotional Work and Web Series

Variety is the spice of life!

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Another liberating experience traveling the road, this time with my good friends and teammates at Chimpanzee Productions’ Digital Diaspora…

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Commercial shot by myself. Hired by a tour manager I met on tour over the winter. Very fun to…

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This hilarious (I think) EPK shows off the awesome talent and warm personalities of Bodega Satelite as a submission…

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Shot this footage for a Mixed Martial Arts gym promo edited by Brian Lederman.  

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Featuring performances by a vibrant array of bands and visual artists, I filmed this live event hosted by emtheories.com…

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