Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron

Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron (Bolivia) is a writer, filmmaker, photographer and development communication specialist. He is the author of several books on communication and film, documentary films, photographic exhibits and has worked in five continents on social development projects. He has published over twenty books, including poetry, narrative and studies on literature, film and communication: Provocaciones (1977); Historia del Cine Boliviano (Mexico, 1982); Cine, Censura y Exilio en América Latina (1979); Les Cinémas d’Amerique Latine (France, 1981) in collaboration with French film critic Guy Hennebelle; Luis Espinal y el Cine (1986); Las Radios Mineras de Bolivia (1989) editor, in collaboration with Bolivian journalist Lupe Cajías; Comunicación Alternativa y Cambio Social (1990); NGO Puzzle (Nigeria, 1993); Popular Theatre (Nigeria, 1994); Bolivie (France, 1981). La Máscara del Gorila (Mexico, 1982), his own account on the Bolivian military coup of 1981, awarded with the National Literature Award of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes of Mexico (INBA). His poetry books include: Antología del asco (1979), Razones técnicas (1980), Sobras completas (1984), Sentímetros (1990) and Memoria de Caracoles (2000). His most recent studies are Making Waves: Participatory communication for social change (New York, 2001), a research project for The Rockefeller Foundation, published in Spanish, English and French; and “Communication for Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings” (2006), published by the Communication for Social Change Consortium in English and Spanish. Over a thousand of his articles and short essays have been published in approximately one hundred newspapers, journals and magazines of Latin America, Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.