Juan Ravell is a documentary director from Caracas, Venezuela. He directed the FRONTLINE (PBS) and Armando.info film A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro's Venezuela, which was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. In 2008, Juan co-founded El Chigüire Bipolar, a wildly popular political satire website that used humor to bypass government censorship in Venezuela. In 2018, Juan branched into investigative journalism, collaborating on projects with reporters from Armando.Info, IDL Reporteros, Columbia Journalism School, and Centro Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Investigación. In 2026, Juan directed the AP–FRONTLINE collaboration Crisis in Venezuela, which follows the aftermath of Nicolás Maduro's capture by the US. That same year, he directed The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador, a FRONTLINE and El Faro co-production examining Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's deal with President Trump to imprison U.S. deportees in the CECOT prison, and investigating Bukele's own history with the gangs his government claims to be fighting. As an audio producer, Juan has also led projects for Spotify Studios Latin America, notably Un Poco de Contexto, an in-depth news and analysis show, and Fútbol a Muerte.