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.[1][2] In 2010 he created the web series Isla Presidencial.[3][4]
In 2017 El Chigüire Bipolar won the Havel Prize, which Ravell shared with Oswaldo Graziani and Elio Casale.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7][8]
Filmography
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