Jorge Ayala Blanco
Known for ActingBorn 1942-01-25Mexico City, Mexico
Jorge Ayala Blanco (Mexico City, 1942) is a mexican film historian and critic, author and dean professor at the National School of Cinematographic Arts (ENAC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Although he studied Industrial Chemistry at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) and after trying to study film at the UNAM University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC), where he occupied a place as a teacher and not as a student, he leaned towards the field of the essay. With more than fifty years of experience, he is also a professor at theNational School of Cinematographic Arts previously Center for Cinematographic Studies, since 1964 and the Casa Lamm cultural center.
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His contribution to the study of cinema has been his “alphabet” of Mexican cinema, a series of books of great importance for understanding the most representative films of his country.
Known for
Los Rollos Perdidos
2012
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017 · as Self
Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
2005
Alucardos: Portrait of a Vampire
2011
The Black Legend of Mexican Cinema
2016
Trailer (Humanity, Food Of The Gods)
Los No Invitados
2003 · as Científico
Alex Phillips: The magic between light and shadow
1998 · as self
Time and Memory
2012