Francisco Álvarez Ríos

Nascimento : 1991-08-12, Cuenca, Ecuador

História

Francisco Álvarez is an ecuadorian filmmaker and festival curator. He is the director of Cámara Lúcida Film Festival and has worked as a programmer of the most important film festivals in Ecuador, such as La Orquídea and EDOC. His documentary The Hidden Shadow was part of IDFA 2020.

Filmes

Educación Perdida
Educación Perdida
Director
Through amateur film material, Educación Perdida formulates a portrait of Ecuador through the exercises of power in the act of filming that the film archive proposes. This film is a subjective wandering through the turbulent paths of an unfortunate nation.
Pleuma
Pleuma
Director
Fluorescent, oxidized, and liquid visions of anonymous bodies traverse an unknown dimension through optical pulsations; insistent blinks in the sea of consciousness. "Pleuma" is an exercise in digital intervention of family films in S8mm format.
La sombra refugiada
La sombra refugiada
Writer
In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.
La sombra refugiada
La sombra refugiada
Editor
In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.
La sombra refugiada
La sombra refugiada
Sound
In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.
La sombra refugiada
La sombra refugiada
Producer
In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.
La sombra refugiada
La sombra refugiada
Director
In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.
Circulación en la corteza
Circulación en la corteza
Producer
The elevated stillness breathes on the path that being fades. Chiaroscuro silence, my face falls like a leaf.
Circulación en la corteza
Circulación en la corteza
Director
The elevated stillness breathes on the path that being fades. Chiaroscuro silence, my face falls like a leaf.
Cordel
Cordel
First Assistant Director
Manuel is a young fisherman who decides that his last day of fishing has arrived… a strange sound haunts his habitat. His sister Daniela and his neighbors regret his decision and prepare a farewell for him.