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Joan López Lloret

Joan López Lloret (1969) became known with the feature documentary Hermanos Oligor (2004), a portrait of the secret world of two artists in search of other realities. The film was awarded the Audience Award at the Malaga Film Festival and the Best Documentary at Docúpolis Barcelona, and premiered in Spanish cinemas. With the next feature film, Utopia 79 (2006), he returns to the big screen with a story of subaltern voices, de-constructing the dream of Nicaragua’s revolution. One year later, he directs Sunday at Five (2007), a Catalan, Basque and Irish co-production that recounts the lives of two ex-convicts in the Northern Ireland peace process. López Lloret is known for his ability to bring to light captivating stories by giving voice to often-forgotten characters. In this way, the documentary Sinaia, Beyond the Ocean (2010) recovers the stories of exiles seventy years after their transoceanic trip to Mexico. The next co-production with Mexico is 138 Seconds (2011), based on the escape of a 1930s Catalan boxing champion, knocked out in the last bout to qualify for the world championship. The theme of destiny is recurrent in his next feature film, The Metal Stork (2012), a co-production with TVE based on children who disappeared during the war in El Salvador. He has recently directed two documentaries —Encants, Diary of a Change (2014) and Temps de caritat (2015)—, both focused on the transformation of his hometown Barcelona. Joan López Lloret deserves a special mention for taking care of photography in his documentaries. He began experimenting with short films in Super 8 at a very young age. He studied photographic direction at Centro Calasanz (now ESCAC) and film direction at CECC. He has worked in TV, cinema and advertising. His films have been selected in a number of international festivals, where he has also conducted documentary workshops.

Update: 19 December 2018

Has participated in

Non-nuclear family

Documentary premiere