Carlos Avila

Carlos Avila is an award-winning writer, producer and director for film and television. Carlos grew up in the working-class Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. As a boy, Carlos’s summers were spent in Mexico and the rest of the year he absorbed all the vibrant influences that a diverse, urban Los Angeles made available. Movies, TV, Lucha Libre, Mexican comic books, rock music, literature, theatre and art all imprinted themselves on Carlos’s creative identity.

Carlos’s film and television credits include episodic television (Grimm, Cold Case), documentary films (Tales of Masked Men), independently-produced short films and series (Foto-Novelas, The Kill Floor, Distant Water) as well as feature films (Price of Glory, La Carpa). Carlos is currently partnered with veteran producer David Valdes (Avatar: The Way of Water, Alita: Battle Angel and Unforgiven). Together, they are developing the feature film, Last Band Standing, which Carlos wrote and will direct.

Carlos received his film training at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA’s Graduate School of Theatre, Film and Television. He is a past recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowship. His feature film, Price of Glory, was developed at the Sundance Institute’s Writers and Directors Lab. Carlos has won two ALMA Awards (American Latino Media Arts Award) including the Best Director Award for Price of Glory. He is a proud member of the Directors Guild of America. As the son of Mexican and Peruvian parents, Carlos is fluent in English and Spanish.