05/05. Friday

13:00 Bodega Klandestina

A wine with Alejandro G. Calvo and Joan Pons

Meeting between Alejandro G. Calvo and Joan Pons

We will reveal the real films and songs of Alejandro's life (and some of Joan's, too).

Alejandro G. Calvo

Alejandro G. Calvo

Born in Barcelona in 1978, he is a journalist and film critic. He currently holds the position of "Head of Movies" at Webedia Spain (SensaCine and Espinof), where he has spent years dedicated body and soul to tracking down, analysing and reporting on the best works of the seventh art. From blockbusters to wéstern, from noir to the most intimate cinema, his reviews and special selections have accumulated on SensaCine's YouTube channel, which already has 400,000 followers. His video section "Cine A Quemarropa" (2019- 2022) is one of the biggest hits of Spanish-language cinema on the web. He has also collaborated with media such as El Cultural, Rockdelux and Dirigido por.

Joan Pons

Joan Pons

Since 1994 he has been working as an editor, writer and critic of music, comics, cinema, books and tv series in different media, but especially in Rockdelux, a magazine where he directed and coordinated the cinema section from 1995 to 2005, and in Fotogramas from 2008 to 2017, where he wrote a monthly column on television fiction. He has also worked as music and film critic for several national newspapers. In the academic field, he was a professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the UAB from 1995 to 2006. He has been part of different television projects such as "Cachitos de hierro y cromo", "Salvados", the daily magazine "Divendres", the docu-reality "Casal rock" or the quiz-show "Gafapastas". He was also part of the programming and artistic direction team of In-edit music documentary film festival. In 2017, he became Director of Communication at Primavera Sound, where he is currently responsible for communication and head of content at the festival, but also coordinates and supervises the communication of the counterpart teams at other Primaveras around the world.