Biography

I was born in Lleida on October 13, 1972. My childhood memories are vague. Like editing a film, my mind has been busy cutting and discarding the unnecessary bits, keeping the most interesting ones. One of them is the Super 8 projector my father bought when I was a child. I’ll never know if my passion for cinema was incubated in my living room or when I discovered Hitchcock.

In 1997, I moved to Amsterdam, and two years later to Brussels. In 2001, I moved to London, where I graduated in Film and Media from Birkbeck University. Over the following years, I attended various creative directing, producing, and screenwriting workshops in the United States, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

Since then, I have written screenplays, plays, novels, short stories, children’s stories, and directed short films, documentaries, and reports. My work has won more than 100 awards at festivals around the world, although for me the true reward is being able to reach viewers and readers.

In parallel to my creative activity, I work as a directing and screenwriting professor at the Catalan School of Cinema and Television (www.eccit.es) in Lleida and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (United States). Among my work as a script doctor is Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) by Belgian director Tom van Avermaet, a film that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film.