Rafael Rosal Paz
Guatemala
(2011-2014)

Rafael Rosal (Guatemala, 1960) graduated from the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in 1991. He was staff member of Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico (1992-1993), coproduced with TV UNAM the documentary Bajo el reino de Xibalbá (1992), on Guatemalan refugees settled in Southeast Mexico. From 1993 to 1995 he directed and wrote for the weekly international news report, The Return of the Guatemalan Refugees, and directed the documentary about female guerrilla, If Blue Doesn’t Exist (1997), a film project produced by San Diego State University. 

 
In 1998 he founded the Icaro Film and Video Festival in Central American and has been its director up to the present. Rosal is also founder and co-director of Casa Comal – Art and Culture, in Guatemala, from 2000 to 2011. In 2000 he won the Rockefeller Foundation scholarship with Juntos somos el Power, his documentary film project on juvenile delinquents’ gangs (maras).
 
He was executive producer and assistant director in the film La casa de enfrente, (2003), directed by Elias Jimenez and produced by Casa Comal. In 2002 he was appointed member of the Superior Council of the New Latin American Film Foundation (FNCL). His first film, Las Cruces… poblado próximo, premiered in 2006 and won eight international awards. In 2007 he executive-produced Jimenez’s second film, VIP… La otra casa, third feature produced by Casa Comal. Executive producer of the television documentary series, Se busca arte y cultura in Centro América (2007-2008, in six chapters, one for each country), and of Ray Figueroa’s film La bodega (2009), which was the fourth feature produced by Casa Comal.
In 2009 Casa Comal co-produced with the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industries the film El premio flaco, directed by Juan Carlos Cremata. He was executive producer of Alejo Crisóstomo’s Fe (2010), a Casa Comal film coproduced with Jirafa de Chile and Spain’s Ibermedia, and the horror film Toque de queda (2011).

In December 2010, FNCL Superior Council appointed him as general director of EICTV and assumed this responsibility in September 2011.

 
Rafael Rosal Paz
Guatemala
(2011-2014)
Director actual
Tanya Valette
República Dominicana
(2007-2011)
Julio García Espinosa
Cuba
(2002-2007)
Edmundo Aray
Venezuela
(2000-2002)
Alberto García Ferrer
Argentina
(1996-2000)
Lisandro Duque
Colombia
(1994-1996)
Orlando Senna
Brasil
(1991-1994)
Fernando Birri
Argentina
(1986-1991)