José Luis Dávila Chacón, Merida-Venezuela. Bachelor of Audiovisual Arts, Msc. Documentary Film and Doctorate in Arts and Cultures of the South, He attends the documentary production workshop EICTV-Cuba 2006. Specialization in Script-direction, and Editing at CFP/SICA Buenos Aires-Argentina. Director/Editor of the ethnographic documentary series “Sur Sin Fronteras”. Participates in the Andean Documentary Film Festival of the French Embassy "Documenta" 2009 and 2011 with 3 documentary productions, selection within BAFICI 2010 Argentina within the 5th Talent Campus Latin America, selection for Venezuela in "Miradas Caribe" at Atelier Varán Colombia , 2012 wins the Manuel Trujillo Durán festival with the Fiction Short “La Víspera de la Vírgen” as Editor, Camera and Photo, and 1st Assistant Director in the crew, 1st Assistant Director and Editing the feature film Fiction: “Pangea” from the French filmmaker Xav Larroque. In 2013 he was selected as a director by the Berlinale Talent for the International Workshop organized by the Universidad del Cine and the Goethe-Institut Argentina with the filmmaker Harun Farocki in the project “El trabajo en una Sola Toma”. In October 2013 he made the feature length documentary "El Aroma que se quedó", he was selected for the Latin American and Caribbean festival of Margarita as an official selection for the 2013 Documentary Feature Competition, trainer and teacher since 2007 in Venezuelan audiovisual production within the space of Laboratorio del cine and audiovisual at CNAC and Unearte since 2016, today Postgraduate Researcher.
