Director

BIOGRAPHY

At times I allow myself to mellow in the hypnotic words of that great cinema critic Alfonso Sánchez, de J. L. Guarner, Antonio Gasset Dubois from his TV show “Days of the movies” or Jaume Figueres from (Cinema 3) from the great trove of magic discoveries that filtered from the TV program. From these I have learned a large part of what I know about this trade stored in my eager memories of my childhood, together with the colours of blazing deserts of John Ford, the epic agony of the characters of David Lean, the bittersweet irony of Chaplin which each saturday would delight us on our small but dear television station (TVE ) that some great programmers presented in the seventies. All that I remember so well, it was so fascinating and aquainted me with film, like those splendid double-bills at our local cinema in the Montemar district of Torremolinos in my young days .

Javier Llamazares

Javier Llamazares;

After eventually to prematurely terminate my student days of law and literature for a course in movie directing at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos de Cataluña (CECC ) in the city of Barcelona, starting in the year 2000. There I met a special moviemaker and professor, José Luis Guerín where I discovered the joys of documentary art through the work of Chris Marker, Jean Rouch, Flaherty, Walter Ruttmann, and Georges Rouquier. A little after 2003, I began the 2nd Bigas Luna workshop specializing in directing and digital editing under the great Catalan director Bigas Luna.

He has intervened on the production of various academic shorts films before directing the short film: “Blood”, a hard and intimate look at the last moments of three people’s lives. This was nominated as Best short and best Catalan production in the International Short film festival (Filmets).

He has shoot three mini African documentaries in Mali and Senegal and has wrote and co-directed a documentary as a coproduction for TV3 (Spanish tv) “The symphony of a market”, a complex and extensive project of a year and a half of shooting about the life surrounding the Encantes of Barcelona, marked by a centenary exhibition where 250.000 people watched this presentation.

He has made many video clips and corporate advertising and wrote two film scripts “En el abismo del dedal” (2000) an spanish urban comedy and “Nights and days” a bittersweet story of a seniors love.

“The Trench” is the third and most ambitious short he has written. A blunt declaration against war set in the bloody Nazi offensive against the Russians in the summer of 1943. it is the story of two soldiers face to face in the fatality of war in a trench where they are obliged to discover that deep down they can be also human.

At time of writing he is involved in the writing of a feature film – a co-production with a french producer – which will be the next long movie project called “Phenomena”.

Javier Llamazares;