Pocho Álvarez

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-12-23 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Riobamba, Ecuador

Pocho Álvarez

Biography

César "Pocho" Álvarez is an ecuadorian documentary filmmaker with 30 years of experience. His documentaries cover social and cultural issues, like the struggle of indigenous communities against the mining and oil companies in films such as Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico (2007) and A cielo Abierto, Derechos Minados (2009). Likewise, he has made portraits of characters such as Oswaldo Guayasamín and Raúl Castro in Luar Trocas (1987) and of Jorge Enrique Adoum in the film Jorgenrique (2010).

Production

2021

The Return

as Story Consultant

2022

2009

Crude

as Director of Photography

2010

Jorgenrique

as Director

2010

Jorgenrique

as Writer

2007

Tóxico, Texaco, Tóxico

as Camera Operator

2010

Jorgenrique

as Editor

2018

2013

Skin Pain

as Editor

2018

2018

Gartelmann la memoria

as Cinematography

2018

2013

Skin Pain

as Director

2013

Skin Pain

as Director of Photography

2018

Javier con i, Íntag

as Director of Photography

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