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Carlos Avila
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Carlos Avila

Carlos Avila makes his feature film directorial debut with Price of Glory. Avila caught the attention of the film community in 1991 with his short Distant Water; a coming-of-age story set in Los Angeles in 1943. The film won the Gran Prix at the inaugural Film Festival of International Cinema Students in Tokyo award and went on to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival, The Whitney Museum in New York, the VII America's Film Festival in Washington D.C. and San Antonio's CineFestival.

In 1993 Avila wrote, produced and directed the American Playhouse drama, La Carpa. Set in rural Southern California in 1938, the story follows a day in the life of a carpa, or tent theater, as it prepares to entertain Chicano laborers and their families.

In 1997 Avila created a critically acclaimed television series called Foto-Novelas, the four half-hour dramas were inspired by the Mexican and Latin-American pulp novel and comic book tradition. Avila wrote, directed and produced the highly acclaimed series.

Avila participated as a Directing Fellow at the Sundance Directors Laboratory and also received an Intercultural Media Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. Avila has also directed for Spanish-language television.

A graduate of the UCLA's School of Film and Television, Carlos grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park, for which his production company, Echo Park Filmworks, is named.


Note: This profile was written in or before 2000.

Carlos Avila Facts

OccupationDirector

Selected Filmography

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