Jorge Grajales

Film researcher specialized in genre cinema and popular culture. He has given courses, lectures and conferences on the subject in places as varied as the Cineteca Nacional, UNAM, Cenart and the Cultural Center of the Korean Embassy. His writings have appeared in various publications, most recently in Marvin magazine with a column on cult cinema and an essay in the book Paisajes de la Muestra published by the Cineteca Nacional. For fifteen years he has run a film club at the Centro Cultural José Martí in Mexico City, where he holds nightly marathons of little-known films that he subtitles into Spanish, an activity that has been recorded in the CUEC short documentary El Rey del Otro Cine, screened at the Shorts Corner of the Cannes Film Festival. He is also the author of the screenplays for Sensus, the first Braille comic book in Ibero-America.