Oskar Alegria

Trained as a journalist, he began working as a reporter in Madrid on news programs for Canal Plus and CNN+. He has been an editor of cultural programs and the coordinator of shows dedicated to literature for the television channels Telemadrid (Los Cinco Sentidos-"The Five Senses") and Euskal Telebista (Sautrela). In the area of gastronomic documentary, he has written and co-directed the series "Masters of Basque Cooking" for ETB-telebista with the chefs Arzak, Subijana, Aduriz, Berasategui and Arbelaitz.

Since 2002, he writes travel reports for the supplement to El País, El Viajero, and is the author of a photographic artistic project called "Las ciudades visibles" ("The Visible Cities"), endorsed by the author Enrique Vila-Matas. Since 2009, he is a professor of documentary scripts in the Masters of Audiovisual Scripts from the University of Navarra and he has led a Workshop in Abstract Photography for children in the Chillida-Leku Museum.

In 2012, he made his first full-length film, La Casa Emak Bakia, with a long tourin film festivals and which has obtained several awards including special mention of RIDM- Montreal International Documentary Festival, and International Festival of Experimental Film of El Bolsón (Argentine).

More info: www.oskaralegria.com