Roger Lapuente

I specialised in Image when I studied Fine Arts and then went on to CiutatVellaTV and BTV, on the video art programme Boing Buddha. Since 2000 I’ve been working as a freelance director and have made personal and commissioned works. I’ve worked mainly in Barcelona, and also in cities such as Montevideo, Caracas, Barranquilla, Hangzhou and Bissau, making documentaries and working as a cameraman or editor on different projects.In 2010, I set up a production company with Magda Timoner, LaInterferència, making video clips, documentaries, and videos for museums, the performing arts and the occasion advert. Personally, I’ve made docufiction works such as Waha (about two undocumented foreign national in the centre of Barcelona, first prize at Festivalito 2004), Ba-Sai-luo-na (Chinese lovers at Christmas in Barcelona) and, most recently, Have a Nice Day (a subjective portrait of a human trafficker), now at the distribution phase.In recent years, I’ve worked in lots of participatory video workshops for elParlante, Mobiolak and El Mirador Cultural, many of them centring on adolescence and immigration. Soon to be released is a western made entirely with people with Down syndrome.