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Joan Pons

Barcelona, 1973. Graduate in Communication Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Since 1994 he has worked as a journalist, writer and critic on music, comics, books and TV series in different publications (Avui, Benzina, books and catalogues for different festivals, among others), but in particular Rockdelux and Fotogramas magazines. He also taught in the Audiovisual Communication department of the faculty of Communication Science at the UAB from 1995 to 2006. He has worked in television since 1999, when he joined the Catalan Canal 33 channel as a script writer specialising in culture. From late 2005 to 2012 he worked for the TV production company "El Terrat" as the head of R&D and new formats. He has also been part of the programming team for the In-edit Festival since 2003. He is currently a film critic for the "Ara Play" supplement to the newspaper "Ara", is in charge of editorial content on the website O and writes scripts for the TVE music documentary programme “Cachitos de Hierro y Cromo”.