José Carlos Avellar

Film Critic, Brazil

José Carlos Avellar. Film critic with books on Brazilian and Latin American Cinema (including “O chão da palavra / The Ground of the Word — Literature and Cinema”; and “A ponte clandestina / The Clandestine Bridge — Film Theory in Latin America”). See a selection of essays in www.escrevercinema.com.

As a Jury Member

  • 13rd Torino Film Festival
  • 18th Montreal World Film Festival
  • 19th Guadalajara International Film Festival
  • 22nd Fribourg International Film Festival
  • 22nd Guadalajara Film Festival
  • 47th Cannes Film Festival
  • 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  • 56th Cannes Film Festival
  • 57th Berlinale
  • 64th Cannes Film Festival
  • 6th Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
  • 7th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
  • International Film Festival Puerto Rico

    • Author of Reports

  • An Imperfect Critic
    in 56th Cannes Film Festival
  • Filming By Accident By José Carlos Avellar
    in 22nd Guadalajara Film Festival
  • Focusing on the Out-of-Focus By José Carlos Avellar
    in 22nd Fribourg International Film Festival
  • Naomi Kawase's "Hanezu": Rocks and Reds
    in 64th Cannes Film Festival
  • Suely in the Screen By José Carlos Avellar
    in 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  • The Panorama Section: Out of Frame By José Carlos Avellar
    in 57th Berlinale
  • The Producer and His Two Ghosts
    in 14th Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
  • The Turning Sky over Buenos Aires By José Carlos Avellar
    in 7th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
  • To Our Eyes Only
    in 19th Guadalajara International Film Festival

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