Javier Porta Fouz

Javier Porta Fouz (b. 1973, Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) is a film critic, programmer and curator, with a degree in Social Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. He joined BAFICI in 2001, became a programmer in 2005 and has served as its artistic director since 2016. Since 2011, he has also curated content for the streaming platform Qubit.tv. He began writing for El Amante-Cine in 1998, becoming its editor in 2003 and later its director. His criticism and essays have appeared in publications including La Nación, Clarín, Rolling Stone and Le Monde diplomatique, spanning film and auteur criticism as well as the economic and political structures that shape cinema. He teaches film criticism at Universidad del Cine (FUC) and is the author of Estudio crítico sobre El aura and co-author of El libro de oro del helado argentino. He has contributed to publications on filmmakers such as Tsai Ming-Liang, Abbas Kiarostami, Leonardo Favio and Lucrecia Martel, as well as on New Argentine and Chilean Cinema.