Film Biz Chat: One on One with Editor/Documentaries, Javier Campos

Javier Campos graduated with a degree in Communications in 2002, but he has been fascinated by cinema from a very young age. As a kid he rented bootleg Betamax tapes of Hollywood hits from a neighbor in his small town outside of Mexico City. In documentary cinema, he discovered the potential of editing to construct arguments and messages with attention to emotional and aesthetic connection with viewers. Javier has been working in the audiovisual industry as an editor for more than 20 years. In 2006, he began editing the documentary film El Varal (2009), directed by Marta Ferrer, which went on to win Best Documentary Film of the 2010 Morelia Film Festival. Since then, Javier has edited 17 documentary films, in addition to a handful of Mexican television series. All of these films have been shown in festivals around the world including TRIBECA, TIFF, HOTDOCS, FIDOCS Chile, Thessaloniki Film Festival, DOKfest Muchen, among others. In 2020, The Guardian of Memory, edited by Javier, won the 2020 Ariel Award for Best Documentary Feature (the Ariels is the Mexican equivalent of the Academy Awards).