Alejandro Ávila Villares is a film journalist. He is the director of FilmAnd, the Andalusian audiovisual magazine, and is a contributor to Cadena SER, in addition to managing the communication, press and social networks of film production companies, films, institutions and festivals. DirCom of the Andalusian Film Academy and ANCINE (Andalusian Association of Film Production Companies), he is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Andalusian Film Academy and AICE, the association that organizes the Feroz Awards.
The EFA selected him for its Sunday in the Country program as the Spanish representative in 2019.
In 2019 he won the Best Andalusian Film Book Award for Objetivo: Planeta Tierra, a pioneering book in Spanish on environmental documentaries and has been a member of the programming team of the Another Way Film Festival. He has worked in the area of production and documentation for award-winning docuseries for Netflix (USA) and VPRO (Public Television of the Netherlands), as well as covering international festivals such as the Berlinale, IDFA Amsterdam, San Sebastian or New Horizons (Wroclaw), among others.
