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Juan Andrés Ravell
BornVenezuela
OccupationFilmmaker
FatherAlberto Federico Ravell
AwardsHavel Prize

Juan Andrés Ravell is a Venezuelan filmmaker. He is one of the founders of El Chigüire Bipolar.

Biography

In 2008 he founded El Chigüire Bipolar, a satirical newspaper, critical of the chavista governments and, at the same time, of their opposition. In 2010 he created the web series Isla Presidencial.

In 2017 El Chigüire Bipolar won the Havel Prize, which Ravell shared with Oswaldo Graziani and Elio Casale.

In 2023, then-Congressman Diosdado Cabello announced that he would sue Ravell and the rest of the creators of El Chigüire Bipolar after a satirical publication about him.

In 2024 Ravell published on PBS A Dangerous Assignment, a documentary about the investigation of the journalist Roberto Deniz of Armando.Info, exiled, regarding Alex Saab and his role in the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Filmography

References

  1. "Venezuelan satirists on fighting fake news with fake news". triple j. 2017-12-05.
  2. Bafile, Mariza (2017-08-21). "Juan Andrés Ravell: Trump y Chávez, dos caudillos, una misma demagogia". ViceVersa Magazine (in Spanish).
  3. "Venezuelan website lampoons Chavez". The Telegraph. 2010-04-13.
  4. Iaconangelo, David (2013-08-22). "Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Says 'I'm Not Ignorant Or Fat' Like 'Isla Presidencial' Show Caricature". The Latin Times.
  5. "Sátira venezolana recibe premio a la disidencia creativa". Deutsche Welle (in Spanish). 24 May 2017.
  6. "Diosdado Cabello se ofende con humor del Chigüire Bipolar y lo llevará a "la justicia"". El Estímulo (in Spanish). 2023-11-23.
  7. Sarabia, Irene (2024-05-17). "Juan Andrés Ravell sobre el documental de Armando.Info: Es un zoom-in a una parte muy oscura de la política venezolana". Efecto Cocuyo (in Spanish).
  8. ""Una pauta peligrosa", el riesgo de investigar a Alex Saab". La Gran Aldea. 2024-05-07.


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