Crowdfunding
Today we start the crowdfunding campaign to finish the documentary “The Voice of Thaïs”. The finance will cover the expenses of copyright images and footage.
The Voice of Thaïs
We already have the poster for the documentary “The Voice of Thaïs”. We are heading towards the end of the editing, so we expect
21 days of rage
My novel “21 Days of Rage” has received the Morella Negra Award as Best Noir Novel published in Spain by a First Time Writer. This is an extraordinary and unexpected achievement. Awards like this are a clear motivation to keep on writing.
04/01/2021
This year has passed as an earthquake. The traces that the pandemic has left being have filled as with sadness. Many people have left us and many cinemas, theatres, bookshops and concert halls have closed down. I hope that 2021 will be more optimistic and that we can...
10/12/2020
The Morella Festival (Spain) gives the award Tuber Melanosporum to the best noir novel of the year published by a first-time author. I have the pleasure to announce that my novel "21 days of rage" is among the five finalists. It is a big achievement, bearing in mind...
06/11/2020
The University of Massachussetts-Amherst has signed me to teach a course about the ins and outs of making short films. The course starts on December 7th and combines both, theory and practical exercises to evolve as a filmmaker, so you can end up making your own...
08/10/2020
We have shot the last scene of the documentary about Elena Jordi. In the meantime we have been editing it and right now we just need to do the sound design, the colour correction and getting the rights of archival footage and images. We can say now that we are at the...
09/09/2020
I'm starting a brand new adventure at the Film and Television School of Lleida (Spain). I will start teaching screenwriting and documentary online courses from October. If you want to enrol, please, visit www.eccit.es.
12/08/2020
The first year leading the Film School in Lleida (Spain) has been very positive. The pandemic paralysed us for a few months but we kept with the same enthusiasm until the end of the term. We shot two short films that are already in the film festival circuit and even...
07/07/2020
We have shot the final part of the documentary about Elena Jordi at the premises of the Film School of Lleida in Spain. Clara Mingueza, an actress from Barcelona, was dressed up as an exotic ballerina to emulate the character of Thaïs. We are now one scene away to...
08/06/2020
After almost three months of lockdown invested in teaching online classes and editing the documentary about Elena Jordi, I am ready to focus on the making of the short films that will be made by the students at ECCIT (www.eccit.es). Everything is ready to hear the...
13/05/2020
During the confinement I have been able to focus on the editing of the documentary about Elena Jordi. There are still a couple of scenes left to shoot and adding some archival footage but the film is at the last stage of editing images. I will soon start the sound...
15/04/2020
On April 23rd we celebrate the World Book Day. The presentation of my book "21 days of rage" at different book stores has been cancelled. We will not be able to stroll around to buy books and roses. Buy we will not stop reading nor caring. This World Book Day books...
23/03/2020
We are going through a very difficult period. I would like to send a message to cheer and encourage those who are fighting against the pandemic and those who are being victims of its most dramatic consequences. We will overcome this situation and get back to our lives...
10/03/2020
On Saturday 14th March I will be participating in a literary debate at the Les Borges Negres Festival (Spain) where I will have the chance to speak about the creative process of my novel "21 days of rage".