Directing

Francisco Álvarez Ríos

Born

1991-08-12 (35)

Place of birth

Cuenca, Ecuador

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

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.

Known for

Behind the camera

Education Lost poster
NR

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.

Education Lost

2022

Pleuma poster
NR

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.

Pleuma

2021

Circulación en la corteza poster
NR

The elevated stillness breathes on the path that being fades. Chiaroscuro silence, my face falls like a leaf.

Circulación en la corteza

2018

Circulación en la corteza poster
NR

The elevated stillness breathes on the path that being fades. Chiaroscuro silence, my face falls like a leaf.

Circulación en la corteza

2018

La sombra refugiada poster
NR

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

2020

La sombra refugiada poster
NR

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

2020

La sombra refugiada poster
NR

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

2020