Script, production and direction // Víctor Saràbia
Víctor Saràbia Miró (Barcelona, 1975) has studied script in the “Escola de Guionistes”. He is training as cameraman and producer working in audiovisual production companies and carrying out his own projects. At the same time, he has written different short stories and he has been graphic humorist and illustrator of several regional publications. In 1996 he creates the first improvised short films contest in Spain.
Outstanding works: Shorts as “El Equipo” (which won the award of production and mounting in the 4º contest of Video Jove) and “Los Cerdos” (First prize Recrearé Tortosa and First prize of animation in the Ruta d’Art Jove of Premià de Mar), the videocreation “Ciudad sin sueño” (finalist in the 7th FICCAB of Málaga, Zemos’98_7 in Sevilla and Fas Curt 2005 in Masnou), the documentary “8/2000:Pecado, Redención, Gloria” (Finalist in the 7th FICCAB of Málaga and in the Mostra de Curtmetratges de Mataró ’04), the documentary “La Mirada dels Premianencs” (1st part of the documentary trilogy about the history of Premià de Mar), which was selected in the FESTIVAL DE CINE Y TV EUROPEO, “MEMORIMAGE, Films de hoy con imagines de ayer” and “Golf en Melilla” (Winner of the Mallerich Films grant in the Microcurt of Igualada and finalist in the Festival Internacional FILMETS of Badalona 2006).
Director of production // Miriam Soms
Miriam Soms (Barcelona, 1981) is a Superior Technician on Production of Audio-Visual, Radio and Shows on the EMAV. She has worked for several production companies developing the production of concerts for Doctor Music, theatre plays as “Tatuatge” directed by Pep Pla and winner of the “Serra d’Or” award for the best play of 2002, television programmes for different local televisions and she has also worked for the Institut de Cultura of the City council of Barcelona in the Production Department. After that she created along with Victor Saràbia LACAJANEGRA Productions, realizing short films and selected and awarded documentaries in national festivals, advertising campaigns and nature reports.
Assistant Director // Pau Ortiz
He’s a Superior Technician of Image by the EMAV, where he filmed, as his final work, the documentary “Una Boda gitana”, which was projected with success in the FNAC and in the projection’s room of the SGAE. Nowadays he’s studying documentary speciality (3rd year) in ESCAC and has done more than 20 projects. He has also collaborated in other productions of LACAJANEGRA.
IC / Production Assistant
19 years of joke (Madrid, Barcelona, Australia)
Now studying 1st course at the ESCAC.
Participation as electrician in the short film in 35 mm. “Expresso” directed by Laura Calavia.
Before school: script and project of two med films, “Intermission”, psychological thriller (co written script), and “3M”, another way of post-apocalyptic critique, whose preproduction was developed.
Nowadays: creating several scripts of feature films in order to subsequently direct them.
Author of multiple literary short stories and a confident in the virtual reality as a new way of combat.
Director of Photography and camera operator // Giorgio Riccardo
He was born in Serego, a village near Milan. After finishing his studies in the school of Grafica Publicitaria, he worked in several photographical studies, working as a photographer assistant first and then as a photographer. His passion for the audio-visual world led him to widen his knowledge about being a photography director, camera operator and film editor in several productions. He has worked in publicity, TV programmes, commercial videos, films, short films and directed a video-clip that was selected in a national contest in Italia. Nowadays, he continues his career in Barcelona, where he has done a film as camera assistant.
Director of Photography and camera operator // Aimar Planas
Born in April 1983, he’s Superior Technician of Image by the EMAV and studies Photography Direction along with Camera Operator in the Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya. He has collaborated as an operator in several short films and documentary films working with all types of formats. Nowadays he combines the documentary project Melvin vs. E.T. (The Story of Joaquín Blázquez) with works for television and theatre shows.
Postproduction of Audio and Direct Sound // Salvador Gallegos
Born in May 1979 in Mérida-Venezuela, he’s Electrician Engineer by the University of Los Andes (Venezuela). He has the Master on Sound Production and Digital Audio by La Salle (Spain) and he is Postproduction Audio Technician by the Escuela de Sonido Mk3 (Spain). He has got experience in musical and audiovisual production, in mounting, in recording studios direction and in direct sound. As regards music, he’s a composer and a singer and he’s the bass of the band Rodamons.
She is 26 years and she studies and works in Barcelona, the city in which she decided to study sound, since she is 22.
After studying Autoedition and Graphic Design in the Escuela of Artes Aplicadas of Huesca, her experimentations on the world of design and photography made her won several awards INJUVE of Arte Joven. After that, she moved to Barcelona to study the degree on Professional Sound in Microfusa and put into practice all her knowledge in the filming of the last Bigas Luna’s film “Yo soy la Juani”, where she worked as second microphonist, sound assistant and postproduction assistant. Apart from working as Sound Technician in different short films, she makes works on Direct Sound as a monitor assistant and microphonist in Arenas Audio company.
Second Unit New York // Marcos Mesa
He studied Comic and Illustration in the school JOSO-COMIC and has also studied in the ESCOLA DE MITJANS AUDIOVISUALS (EMAV) of Barcelona. He has done three expositions of creative photography in Barcelona and has participated in some expositions in Madrid and Burgos. Nowadays he is investigating the field of matheric art, studying the 3rd course of Arts in the Universidad de Barcelona.
Second Unit New York // Rafael Ortín
3D Animation // Digital Dreams
Digital Dreams Films is an association of artists and audiovisual technicians with big experience on important animation productions. Among their infinite applications we can find films, series, technical presentations and publicity.
Coordinated by Beñat Beitia, a group of professionals decided to join their qualities, dreams and compromises focusing, from the very beginning, on the most advanced technologies as a way to create illusions.
Nowadays, they are producing their first animated film (that will be soon announced) and two TV series for children, among other projects created by the fertile imagination of Digital Dreams team. It has to be emphasized that they have their own formation centre, where day by day the future of the 3d sector is born.
Born in Barcelona in 1976. He is a Bachelor on Publicity in the URL and script creation in the EICTV of Cuba. He has studies graphic design in different studies and nowadays works as a freelance for all types of projects, usually related to cinema. He has designed the artwork for films as “El Taxista Ful”, “The Ungodly”, “Jóvenes”, “Tangoway” and “Los perdedores”
