José Carlos Avellar
José Carlos Avellar (15 December 1936 – 18 March 2016) was a Brazilian film critic and essayist. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1936, Avellar worked for over twenty years as a film critic for the "Jornal do Brasil". Avellar was also a film critic for "Escrever Cinema" and taught film at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. Avellar published six books on film theory, and co-authored dozens of studies on the Brazilian cinema and Latin America - including "Le Cinéma brésilien" (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and "Hojas de Cine" (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico).