Jaume Balagueró

Born in Lérida (Catalonia) 3 November 1968, Jaume Balagueró Bernat graduated from the University of Barcelona with a degree in Communication Sciences and studied cinema at the Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC). He worked as a journalist and radio host (“La espuma de los días”, on Radio Hospitalet, the fanzine Zineshock) before tackling his first work in cinema, the short film Alicia (1994), which picked up the Award for Best Short Film at the Sitges Festival that year. In 1999 he directed his first feature-length film, The Nameless, an adaptation of the Ramsey Campbell novel that won him the Golden Meliès Award for Best European Fantastic Film that year. As of this moment, in collaboration with the production / distribution company Filmax, his career took on an international dimension thanks to titles like Darkness (2002), Fragile (2005), [·Rec] (2007) and [·Rec] 2 (2009) – both co-written and co-directed with Paco Plaza – and the excellent TV film To Let (2006).

Sitges Film Festival