Series LANDMEET with the Film Festivals of Malaga, Seville and Almeria

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.

Cultural manager and film critic. He is a member of the Spanish Film Academy, an institution that awarded him the González-Sinde Prize in 2012 for his work in the dissemination of cinema. In 2019 he received the ASECAN Award for his work in promoting cinema in Andalusia.

With more than thirty-five years of experience, he currently coordinates the Encuentros con el Cine Español and is the director of the Muestra de Cine Español Inédito en Jaén, organised by the Jaen Provincial Government, the short film competition Rodando por Jaén, the Miguel Picazo Film Campus in Cazorla, as well as the Conversations with Directors organised by the Fundación Unicaja in Almería, Málaga and Cádiz. In 2013 he created the Short Film Festival against Gender Violence, organised by the Jaén Provincial Government, which he directed for six years. Since 2015 he has been the director of the Almería International Film Festival.

He was part of the commission that created the Andalusian Film Academy, was a member of its first board of directors and is currently vice-president of the new board.

His directorial debut was the documentary Miguel Picazo, un cineasta extramuros, which was nominated for the Forqué Awards in 2017. He recently premiered the documentary Miradas del cine español at the Malaga Festival, sponsored by the Fundación Unicaja, of which he is co-director.

He has published the books Miguel Picazo, un cineasta jiennense, La Tía Tula, guión cinematográfico, Los hijos de Alvargonzález, guión cinematográfico inédito, Jimena (ASECAN Award 2015) and Rodajes en Jaén (ASECAN Award 2017).

He was president of the Association of Audiovisual Festivals of Andalusia between 2011 and 2014, re-elected between 2016 and 2018, and a member of the board of directors of ASECAN for six years.

Managing Director of Málaga Procultura of the Málaga City Council, which integrates the Málaga Festival, Málaga Film Office, Cine Albéniz and the municipal theaters Cervantes and Echegaray. He is an associate member of the Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes Cinematográficas de España, secretary of the Academia de Cine de Andalucía and member of the jury of the Platino Awards of Ibero-American cinema. He is the author of several audiovisual research publications, as well as a hundred journalistic articles of cinematographic content, having worked in various media as program director and film critic. He is a professor in several masters and training courses in audiovisual subjects.

Spanish film producer, former audiovisual consultant at the Madrid regional government, AMPAS and Spanish Film Academy member, Spanish TV Academy member, member of the board in CARTOON (European Animation Producer’s Guild)PhD in Film Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, graduated in directing at ARTSS International UK and in the Entertainment Master Class at the Erich Pommer Institute in Berlin. Since 2001 has produced eleven feature films for the international market, eight of them in animation, and has won five Goya awards in the best animation feature category, one EFA award, one Platino award and twice the Jury Award at Annecy, the most important animation film festival in the world. 

After working in AGAPI as manager and in the Media Business School as coordinator, he joins Dygra Films in 1999 as executive producer in the films The living forest (first CGI animation film in Europe) and Midsummer Dream. In 2005 he joins Zinkia Entertainment as development and distribution director with the series Pocoyó and Shuriken School. 

In 2007 he creates Perro Verde Films and produces five films: the CGI animation film The Missing Lynx (with Kandor Moon presented by Antonio Banderas), Lost in Galicia and The night that stopped raining (both live action), Going Nuts (action and horror animation with painted peanuts) and his first 2D feature film Wrinkles based in the graphic novel by Paco Roca, directed by Ignacio Ferreras, considered one of the most relevant animation films in 2012 and released in Japan by Ghibli. 

In 2013 he produces and launches in Spain the 3D stereoscopic documentary feature film Bullrunning in Pamplona. From 2012 till 2014 works as Executive Producer in the animation film Another day of life (Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018) which had its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival. 

In 2017 announces the production of Dragonkeeper, a CGI animation family film coproduced by Spain and China that will be released in 2023. In 2019 he 

premieres the 2D animation film Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles (Salvador Simó) winner of the European Film Award as best animated film in Europe, the Goya award and the Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and at the Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles. 

In 2019, he joined the Region of Madrid as Audiovisual Industry Advisor where he created a support line for feature films, another for support for video games support, and renewed the development and short film production support lines. He achieved a budget increase of 89% for projects and creates the Madrid for the Goya programme, with which short films from the region win in all three categories for two years in a row, and Madrid for the Oscars, which supported The Windshield Wiper by Alberto Mielgo from Madrid which in 2022 won the Oscar for best animated short and became the first Spanish short film to do so. In 2022 he joins Mano Animation Studios as producer of the 2D animated feature film The Glassworker. 

He has been for more than 10 years member of the board in the Spanish Film Academy and Vice-President in DIBOOS (Spanish Animation Producer’s Guild): he has lectured in 21 countries. He is also a teacher at the U-TAD University and at the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid. 

En 1996 he got one of the 12 European scholarships granted by the MPAA and entered as intern at UIP; in 1997 he was the first Spaniard selected for a grant of the Nipkow Programme in Berlin; in 2000 he was selected by the EFA in its new talent programme in Iceland; in 2007 he was selected as one of 60 personalities of the Cannes Film Festival by Variety; in 2008 selected producer in the move by European Film Promotion; in 2012 he got the CARTOON Tribute as best animation producer of Europe.