He was one of the sponsors of the 1922 Week of Modern Art that took place in São Paulo, bringing together important Brazilian and foreign painters, sculptors, writers, musicians in São Paulo at the Theatro Municipal, the city's opera theatre.
[5] When his son Francisco — Alves' father — was born in 1928, he bought a 16mm Eastman Kodak film camera to shoot his baby.
Francisco would later continue this and film his children (Patricia, Angela, Flavia and Oscar) on 16 mm and Super8.
He returned to Grupo Abril (the then-owner of the Brazilian MTV franchise) in 1992 to launch the country's first cable television channel, TVA, where he created the network's programs department as production manager and later director for special shows.
In addition, he directed concert video releases from Titãs, Djavan, Cidade Negra, Zélia Duncan, Simoninha & Max de Castro, Zezé di Camargo & Luciano, Paralamas and Skank.