"If I had to define my vocation, I'd say it's the creative design for an audiovisual production, meaning the capacity to conceive and materialize an audio and/or visual work applying the appropriate technology to the artistic expression of a valuable idea."
Javier Horacio Alvarez
Born in 1981, Javier Horacio Alvarez is an Italian Argentine, characterized by early artistic and technological training, a strong vocation for creative design and a constant self-taught expansion of technical and cultural knowledge in film, video and music production.
His artistic training began at 4 years of age in the family tradition of studying music through the Suzuki Method and at the Provincial Conservatory of Music in Cordoba, Argentina. At the age of 17, he began his cinema studies at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, where he practiced for 5 years as director, camera operator, film editor, sound designer and music composer of many audiovisual productions. He carried out complementary studies of theatrical performance at the National University of the Arts. In 2003 he completed his degree in cinematography as Film Director and for 5 years he accumulated experience working in Buenos Aires for film, video and advertising production companies such as Matanza Cine, Wanka Cine and Peluca Films. He also worked as a teacher and designed curricular programs for Combined Arts, Artistic Production and Applied Technology at the Glaux Institute's High School.
In 2008, Javier Horacio Alvarez settled in Bolivia and founded, together with Donald K. Ranvaud and César Brie, the production company Artes Andes Americas on the premises of the Teatro de los Andes. There he made documentaries in defense of human and environmental rights, some of which led to legal trials and served as testimonial evidence. He also supported the new Bolivian constituent process by working as film director and editor for the Vice Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and many organizations such as the german Friedrich Ebert Foundation in La Paz. In addition, he lectured as a professor of film directing and editing at the School of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts of La Paz, where he created a department of academic production. He also dictated an annual film workshop in Artes Andes Americas, editing his own technical manual for students.
For over 20 years, Javier Horacio Alvarez has served as director, producer, creative director, film editor, sound designer, music composer, camera operator, post-producer of image and sound, actor, announcer, digital animation designer and teacher. He has enriched his socio-cultural experience working in Argentina, Bolivia, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Mozambique. In 2016 he independently produced the web series La Granda Bildo to raise awareness of the world population on climate change and human behavior. In 2017 he settled in Germany as an independent film, video and music producer. He currently produces a pop band and two fiction films.
2010 - Documentary (90') Subtitled
Co-directing, editing and camera op.
2008 - Documentary (44') Subtitled
Co-directing and editing.