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.