Seville, 1984. When he was just 21 years old, he joined the editorial staff of Días de cine, a programme broadcasted by “La 2” channel of Spanish public television. Since then and until last November, he has been regularly signing reports, columns, essays and reviews.
He started his career as a screenwriter, director, producer, and editor with the short film La Higuera in 2010, selected in more than thirty international festivals. He then released two maritime documentaries: La vida a 5 nudos, a borde del J.S. de Elcano, which premiered in 2015 at the Malaga Festival, and Señores de las redes in 2017. In 2018 he returned to the festival to premiere Diana, his first and controversial feature-length fiction film.
In 2021, he premiered his next work Hechos provados at Seminci, the Valladolid International Film Festival. This docu-thriller triggered a huge debate among the press and in social media after being publically released on the real estate platform Idealista. This film, which critically analyses tax abuses in Spain, is considered among Filmaffinity users to be one the best documentaries of 2021, having a place in the ranking of the best rated documentaries in history.
Digital Director of Fotogramas.es, he has been writing about Spanish and international cinema for more than twenty years. From the most indie titles to the essential blockbusters or the most select films out of international festivals. Anything goes to feed his inexhaustible cinephile craving. And that is, of course, without forgetting TV series.
All the Spanish star system have passed through his tape recorder… and a big part of the international one too. Since he graduated in Journalism at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he has worked for several Hearst mastheads, such as TP, Supertele or Teleindiscreta, before landing in Fotogramas. Oddly enough, this is the magazine which started to awaken his passion for the cinema from a very young age.
The Malaga Film Festival has been and still is for him an unavoidable annual celebration and meeting point with the industry.
She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a journalist with a degree in Journalism and Social Communication (UNLP) and a specialist in Cultural Industries in Digital Convergence, with a postgraduate degree in Cultural Industries (UNTREF).
Specialised in Argentinean cinema, she is the creator and director of the multimedia digital platform GPS Audiovisual. She works as a consultant in the design and communication of audiovisual productions and different festivals in Argentina.
She gives seminars and trainings on projects communication in the digital era. She is a member of the Advisory Commission for Film Exhibitions as a representative of the National Secretariat of Culture. She is co-author of the section dedicated to Argentinean cinema in the Diccionario del Cine Iberoamericano (SGAE, 2011) and contributor to El asombro y la audacia: El cine de María Luisa Bemberg, a work compiled by J. Kratje and M. Visconti in 2020. She is also author of the book 50 mujeres del cine argentino (Ediciones Del Empedrado, 2022).
She has covered the different editions of the San Sebastián, Mar del Plata, Huelva and Havana film festivals, and curated Directoras, a series of Argentinean films directed by women, promoted by the Gender Commission of Argentinean Film Directors and GPS Audiovisual.
With a degree in Journalism and a Master's degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies from the University of the Basque Country, she is currently working on her doctoral thesis. She is head of communications at the San Sebastián Festival and is a member of its steering and selection committee.
Previously, she wrote for more than a decade in several media. She was head of the Culture section of the Noticias de Guipuzcoa newspaper for seven years, covering the Festival. She has also been editor of the Zinemaldia magazine. Before joining the San Sebastián Festival, was the assistant director of the cultural programme of the Donostia/San Sebastián, 2016 European Capital of Culture Foundation.
She has participated in the selection of short films for the Kimuak programme and has been a member of juries at festivals such as FICLO (Olhão International Film and Literature Festival) and the 1st Errenteria Film and Human Rights Festival, as well as collaborating on publications such as the book in the collection named Nosferatu Zinemaldia 1953-2022. Singularities of the Donostia/San Sebastián Festival.