About Dante Alencastre

Dante is a true working artist/filmmaker/activist who makes his living from his film work. He has the imagination to envision projects and see the potential in individuals and the importance of stories, combined with the courage and conviction to begin to create them, often before any organizational structure or financial assurance is in place, but with a trust that their inherent importance to the community will allow them to come into being.

Dante Alencastre is a local documentary filmmaker and LGBT community activist, based in West Hollywood. His work combines and blurs the boundaries between filmmaking, activism and community participation by documenting and amplifying the under-told, but extraordinary stories of local LGBT activist heroes, told with depth, respect and sensitivity and then shared with national and world-wide target audiences.

His grass-roots dedication and consistent commitment to the advancement of the LGBT community in small, as well as large and public ways is reflected in his filmmaking and also his work on the boards of regional LGBTQ+ arts organizations and political and community groups. His film and activist work has focused particularly on the overlapping Latino/a, Transgender and Gender non-conforming sub-tribes within our community, supporting and purposely working with youthful filmmakers, artists and activists as well as seasoned activist heroes.