New term at ECCIT
On September 25th classes will resume at the Film School of Lleida (Spain). At ECCIT we offer to anyone the possibility to learn any job related to the film and television industry.
Galacticat Film Festival
It is a pleasure to assist to festivals where "The Voice of Thaïs" has been selected. But it is even more thrilling to share points of view with the audience and remember that, once you present a film, the film is not yours anymore, but everybody's. Thanks a lot to...
Zoe Natan’s second novel
After a year structuring the story, the second novel about policewoman Zoe Natan is on its way. This Summer I will write a long awaited book that will take me to narrate the adventures of this peculiar woman in the Spanish Pyrenees.
Àngela
The documentary about Àngela Mora is shaping up. After one year of shooting, traveling to competitions and following Àngela's private life, we are now at the postproduction stage, more precisely, we are at the beginning of editing the footage. You can see the teaser...
Extinction
For the first time, I will be working on an animation project. And I will do it because the project asks for it. "Extinction" is an adventure feature film that deals with animals in critical danger of extinction from a realistic and inspiring approach. "Extinction"...
The Freedom Trail
"The Freedom Trail" is a yearly activity that gathers descendants of political refugees that escaped German Nazism with the goal of crossing the Pyrenees and get to Spain from where they would go on exile. For 29 years this event has taken place yearly and it consists...
The press
Not long ago, a Spanish newspaper published a monographic about the documentary "The Voice of Thaïs" and to my new documentary "'Àngela". We are pleased that the press is giving us this support to keep on working on our projects and make people aware about them....
ECCIT
We start 2023 celebrating an anniversary. Four years ago I created the Cinema School of Lleida in Spain (www.eccit.es). Since then, we have gone through so many things. But the most important is that I still teach filmmaking to new students with the same enthusiasm.
Film on Filmin
From December 23rd, my documentary "The Voice of Thaïs" will be available on the Spanish platform Filmin. After more than a year showing the documentary in film festivals around the world and getting 50 official selections and 22 awards, it will finally be available...
New online course
In December I will start a new online course about directing, writing and producing short films at the University Amherst-Massachusetts. If you are interested about learning about how to develop ideas, writing screenplays and making short films, you can enroll here.
Travelling to festivals
This Autumn my documentary "The Voice of Thaïs" will premiere in many festivals around the world. One of the most interesting parts of making a film is the interaction with the audience, so I try to go to as many festivals as possible, although my duties keep me off...
New documentary
Àngela is the title of my new documentary. A few months ago I started following Àngela Mora, a youngster from Maials (Lleida, Spain), who in November 2021 became the first girl with Down's syndrome to participate in the Spanish Gymnastics Championships. The...
More awards
The documentary "The Voice of Thaïs" has received 10 awards from 23 festivals where it has been selected. It is a great accomplishment for the cast, crew and people who participated in it. Thanks a lot to all of you who made possible to show to the world who Elena...
Erasmus Project in Poland
In July I will be traveling to Szczecin (Poland) to teach a few Directing classes to students from different cinema schools of Sweden, Poland and Spain. The Cinema School of Lleida (Escola Catalana de Cinema i Televisió ECCIT), from which I am director and teacher,...
Another novel on the way
It's been almost three years since I published my first novel "21 Days of Rage". Ever since I published the book, literature has kept seducing me after every single book I read, After receiving the Morella Negra 2021 Award for Best Noir Novel published in Spain by a...