David Antonio Jurado
2025-2026
Francois Chevalier
Universidad de Guadalajara
Visualidades del documental de true crime: miradas cruzadas en América Latina y Europa
David Jurado is a scholar and researcher specializing in documentary cinema, the film industry, discourses on cultural heritage, and the intersections between film, art, and literature. He holds a degree in Literature from the University of Guadalajara, a Master’s in Film and New Media Studies from the University of Paris, and a PhD in Romance Studies from the Institute of Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the Sorbonne University.
His academic and creative work has been supported by numerous institutions, including the National Fund for the Arts of Mexico, the Colombian Film Development Fund, the District Institute for the Arts of Bogotá, and the Mexico City Film Promotion Trust. He received a doctoral scholarship from the Île-de-France Region, and his dissertation was selected for publication by the Institut des Amériques.
He has taught courses in history and audiovisual media at institutions in France, Colombia, and Mexico. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Audiovisual Laboratory for Social Research (Laboratorio Audiovisual de Investigación Social) at the Mora Institute–SECIHTI, where he continues to explore the intersections of academic research and creative practice.
Research project
This Project aims to study the true crime documentary. It analyzes productions from four countries across two distinct regions -Colombia and Mexico, and Spain and France- seeking to identify transnational features. It examines how global markets strategies intersect with narratives and stories rooted in the local but aimed at global audiences. The project is based on the hypothesis that true crime documentary has been promoted by streaming platforms as part of their strategy to penetrate national and transnational markets. These dynamics between the local and the global, in turn, generate cultural imaginaries about the countries involved, which feed back into the same platforms, thus producing true crime glocal visualities. The research is accompanied by the development of a true crime documentary project dossier as an experimental and creative exercise
