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"Matar el Tiempu" (15 min- 2006)

Best fiction–Media 10/10 (2006-Belgium)/ Interfilm Berlin (nominee)–(2006 –Germany)/ Quality Award–CFWB (2007- Belgium)/ Tampere Short Film Festival (nominee)-(2007-Finland)/ Best Short–Asturian Film festival (2007-Spain)/ “Best of European Shorts” (nominee) - Ludwigsburg European Short Film Festival/Best film (Grand Prix)–Festival Européen du Cinéma et du Monde Rural de Lama.
DIRECTOR/REALISATEUR
Born in 1969 in Spain. He studies cinema in Brussels and directed his first short film in 2000, "Hestoria d’un Vezu". He directed some documentaries then returns to the shorts films with "Matar el tiempu" in 2006 and «Vencíu» in 2008. Now, he is post-producing his last short “La Vida de María Magdalena” and writing his first length feature film.
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“La Vida de María Magdalena”
(2009 - Short Fiction -14 min) post-production
BLOG
Marie tries to survive in a world which gives few chances to a woman as her. She could be a victim as so many others, but she decides to change everything in one night.
“VENCIU/VAINCU”
(2008 - Short Fiction - 20 min)
At the end of the dictatorship in Spain, one teenager returns to his natal village, looks for the tomb of his father without finding her. Around him, there is only a wall of silence and forgetting.
WO FU TSIEN
(2006 - Short – Fiction)
Incomplete
“MATAR EL TIEMPU”
(2006 - Short Fiction - 15 min)
Portrait of an old woman who fights with her neighbour to give a sens to her life. A war in a village who is dying. She prepares an ultimate meanness when the fate is going to decide for her of the end of this war...
“THE ROAD TO HEIPING DISTRICT”
(2004 - TV doc - 26min)

The history of the Boxer Rebellion. In 1901 the West crushes in a blood bath the Chinese empire. A war which changed the face of China.
“MUSIC WAS MY FIRST LOVE”
(2003 - TV doc - 52min)
The musician's hard life.

LE MYSTERE DE KARAKYNGOL
(2002-TV doc-52min)
The Mongolian life through archaeological excavations of the Xiongnus's empire.
«HESTORIA D’UN VEZU»
(2000 - Short Fiction - 16 min)

An old farmer and his horse have their old habits: after the work in fields, they stop in each bar between the fields and the home. Everything was perfect until the old farmer sells farm and horse to a young and innocent farmer.

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AWARDS
Best fiction – Media 10/10 (2006-Belgium); Interfilm Berlin (nominee) – (2006 –Germany); Quality Award – CFWB (2007-Belgium); Nominee For the Best short – Gijon Internacional Film Festival (2006-Spain); Tampere Short Film Festival (nominee) - (2007-Finland); Best Short – Asturian Film festival (2007-Spain); “Best of European Shorts” (nominee) - Ludwigsburg European Short Film Biennale (2007-Germany) ; Best film (Grand Prix) – Festival Européen du Cinéma et du Monde Rural de Lama (2007 – France)* « Iris d’Or » (mejor corto) Festival International du film de Bruxelles (Bélgica), « Meilleure fiction » (mejor corto) en Dompierre (Francia); « Premio del jurado y primer premio» en « Ajijic » (Méjico); « Prix Meuter-Titra ; révélation Jeune Talent ; direction photo» en Media 10/10 (Bélgica); « Meyor curtiu n’asturianu» 2u Festival de cine asturianu; « Award for a young talented Cinematographer » IMAGO (Europa) ;Nominación para los « Pardi di domani » en Locarno (Suiza); « Best Filming Award » en Seúl (Corea); « Best First Film» en St.Petersbourgo (Russia) ; Best Photography at Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (Belgium); Best Short at « Día d’Asturies » Section in the Gijón International Film Festival (Spain).
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