Producers

OSKAR ALEGRÍA

Having studied to be a journalist, he began working as a reporter in Madrid for Canal Plus and CNN+ news. He has worked as editor and coordinator in slots dedicated to art and culture for Telemadrid (Los Cinco Sentidos) and Euskal Telebista (Sautrela / Orain). In his 15 years in television, he has interviewed Jean Rouch, Bertrand Tavernier, Sebastiao Salgado, Eduardo Galeano, Ryszard Kapuscinski and four Nobel Prize winners for literature: José Saramago, Kenzaburo Oé, Mario Vargas Llosa and Derek Walcott. In the field of gastronomy documentaries, he has written and co-directed the series Maestros de la cocina vasca (Masters of Basque Cuisine) for ETB-television with five documentaries dedicated to the chefs Arzak, Subijana, Aduriz, Berasategui and Arbelaitz. More recently, he has directed the film Txerri-jana for the restaurant, Mugaritz, which narrates the awakening and dawn of a pigsty and the short film, Architecture et Nourriture, which won an award at the last edition of the Oaxaca-Mexico Food Film Festival, on the construction of a Parisian restaurant designed by the Dutch Pritzker award-winning studio, Rem Koolhaas.

For the past ten years, he has written travel reports in the El País supplement, El Viajero, and he is the author of an urban photography artistic project called Las ciudades visibles, backed by the writer, Enrique Vila-Matas, and the plastic artists, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina and Esther Ferrer. He has exhibited photography collections for the Mapamundistas congress in Pamplona and the Photomuseum in Zarautz. Since 2009, he has taught documentary scriptwriting at the Audiovisual Scripts Master course at the University of Navarra and he has run a workshop on abstract photography for children at the Chillida-Leku Museum. He is now finishing his first feature film on the Emak Bakia house (Basque for "Leave Me Alone") in which Man Ray recorded a "cine-poeme" with the same name near Biarritz in 1926.

DIANA TOUCEDO

Diana Toucedo studied a degree in Film and Audiovisual Communication, specialising in editing at ESCAC (Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia, Barcelona University) in 2008, and went on to do a Masters in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Pompeu Fabra University in 2011 She made her first feature-length documentary as an editor in conjunction with ESCAC, Tragovi (2009), which was filmed in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Together with Arnau Quiles, she spent two years working at the Mariscal Studio on the editing of the animated film, Chico and Rita (2010), directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, and she has worked with the prestigious designer on numerous visual works. Alongside the Catalan sculptor, Jaume Plensa, she has produced the images of a visual sculpture in the post-production phase in Seoul, Korea. Simultaneously, she has worked on several occasions as director: Ser de Luz, with material by Gustav Deutsch (2009) and Tres tiempos tres gestos, on the work of Naomi Kawase (2010). She worked with Isaki Lacuesta on the editing of his correspondence film with Kawase, In Between days (2009), for CCCB and All the Night Long (2010) for TCM. The documentary was highly praised by critics at the San Sebastian Film Festival ("through exquisite editing, Gardner talks to herself", or "sophisticated editing that makes past and present talk"). La noche que no acaba received the award for best documentary of the year at the Spanish Film Festival in Toulouse (2011). She is now directing her first feature-length documentary, Trinta Lumes, in Galicia.

JORGE TUR

He is a graduate in Psychology and has a Master in Creative Documentary from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). In 2006 he directed De funció, for which he won various awards such as the 'Manoel de Oliveira' Award for Best International Documentary at the Curtas Vila Do Conde International Film Festival in Portugal, or the Nueva Autoría Award for Best Director at the Sitges International Film Festival in Catalonia. His next work, Castillo, earned him a Special Mention from the Jury at the Las Palmas International Film Festival. He followed on with Si yo fuera tú, me gustarían los Cicatriz, which also obtained a Special Mention from the Jury at the Dei Popoli Festival in Florence. His latest work is called Diario Ruso, which recently premiered at Visions Du Reél de Nyon, Switzerland.

He has worked as an assistant director in the fictional sector, as well as a psychologist and coordinator of an audiovisual workshop at a Psychiatric Hospital. At present, he is a project production teacher and coordinator in the Master en in Creative Documentaries at the UAB.

His work has been seen at festivals such as DocLisbon, Bafici, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Annecy Spanish Cinema Biennial, Tampere Film Festival, Mediterranean Film Festival, In-edit: Barcelona International Music Documentary Film Festival; at cultural centres such as the Cervantes Institute in Dublin, Prague, Manchester or Warsaw, the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid, the CGAI in A Coruña; and at museums such as Malba in Buenos Aires, Musac in Leon, or the MuVIM in Valencia.