J. Carlos Vasquez Velasco/Open Cinema Consortium Blog

Carlos Vasquez Velasco, Open Cinema Blogger

J. Carlos Vázquez Velasco (Basque Country, Spain) is the Director of Kultura, Communication and Development (KCD). KCD's goal is to utilize communication as a tool for social and cultural development. He is also the Founder of the International Invisible Cinema Film Festival ("Filme Sozialak")　in Bilbao and the Network of Communicators, CAR. Since 1988, Carlos has been working in area of Cooperation and Education for Development. For 16 years, he directed a socially engaged film series in four cities and various small towns in the Basque Country. From 2005 to 2009 , he was a consultant to the Coordinator for the Latin American Indigenous Film and Communication (CLACPI). Carlos has been a juror at The VII International Indigenous Film and Video Festival, Wallmapu (Chile), 2004; V Cine Pobre Film Festival, Gibara, Cuba, 2007; VI International Small Film Festival, Canary Islands, 2007; and awarded the Telesur prize in the IX International Indigenous Film and Video Festival, Bolivia, 2008.