Javier Parra

Javier Parra (Reus, 1985) grew up watching horror films. He graduated in History at the Universitat de Barcelona and completed a Master’s degree in Cinema and Contemporary Audiovisual Studies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Cinema critic with experience in international film festivals as a programmer and jury member, he’s the author of Terror en serie (Héroes de Papel, 2019), La madre terrible en el cine de terror (Hermenaute, 2020) and Scream Queer. La representación LGTBIQ+ en el cine de terror (Dos Bigotes, 2021), a work that led him to teaching and to organizing the Screem Queer retrospective in the 2022 edition of the NIFFF – Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2023 he coordinated ¡Larga vida al trash! El cine de John Waters como nunca te lo habían contado (Dos Bigotes, 2023) and a year later he published Scream Queer 2: La venganza (Dos Bigotes, 2024). He lives in Barcelona, is part of the podcast ¡Estamos Vivas! and works in the publications department at Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival.