Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959) is a writer, journalist, scriptwriter and film critic. A literature graduate, he taught literary theory at the Humanities department of UBA and founded the journal Lecturas Críticas. He was editor of the magazine revista Página/30 and subeditor of Radar, the Sunday supplement of Página/12, which he continues to contribute to. He currently writes columns on cultural themes for the Brazilian paper Folha de Sao Paulo and presents the series on independent cinema Primer Plano on the cable channel I-Sat.