Juan G. Castro Email & Phone Number

Hi, welcome to my LinkedIn profile! I’m a Film Distribution, Film PR & Communications Executive, with nearly 2 decades of experience working with public and private Film & TV companies, as well as international media organisations in the Americas and Europe. Since 2010, I've specialized in Film Promotion and Sales, partnering with Quechua Films (Spain) for the international business development of the agency. Following the same path, I was commissioned in 2020 to curate, develop, launch, and manage the World Documentary Sales division at a global video news agency (Germany) and in 2021, I started LATIN QUARTER (The Netherlands), a film company integrating Film Release & Events across Europe (Amsterdam - Barcelona - Berlin - London); Media PR & Communication -via our sister company THE LINK-, and World Film Sales & Distribution -LATIN QUARTER Distribution- of the best independent cinema from and for Latin America, the Latinx diaspora around the world, and beyond.Previously, I had the privilege of managing Communications at the Ibero-American Association of Educational and Cultural TV (Spain), resulting in the integration of 200 partners, mainly broadcasters, from 20 countries in Latin America plus Spain, the US, Canada and the UK; as well as leading in parallel the coproduction, exchange and promotion of high-quality programming at IBE.tv (TEIb), the TV Cooperation Program part of the Ibero­ American Summit (SEGIB). Also, I'm a co-founder of NCI, the Ibero American Cultural News Channel, and have worked as a cultural news anchor at Spain's public broadcaster TVE. During my journey, I've lived in Spain, the Netherlands, Peru, Germany, and the United Kingdom; and also worked developing in-situ media projects in Argentina, Italy, Chile, the U.S.A., Mexico, and France. I'm a regular in nearly all the major film festivals, markets, and pitching forums around the world, from Ventana Sur in Argentina to Cannes' MIP markets, through the Mostra di Venezia in Italy, Guadalajara Festival in Mexico, Locarno in Switzerland, IDFA and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Berlinale in Germany and Sheffield, Raindance or BFI London Film Festival in the United Kingdom, among many others.

Listed skills include Public Relations, Social Media, Corporate Communications, Journalism, and 13 others.