VENUS

Jaume Balagueró

(Lleida, Spain, 1968) debuted in directing with Alicia, winning the award for best short film at the Sitges Film Festival. His first feature-length film, Nameless (1999), screened at various festivals, including the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film and the Fantafestival in Gérardmer, where he received the Golden Meliés awarded by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation for best European film. In 2006, he participated in Venice out of competition with To Let, a film from the horror TV series Films To Keep You Awake. The next year, he returned to the Lido with [Rec], which was followed in 2009 by [Rec]², winner of the Ben & Jerry’s Award at the Sitges Film Festival. The series has another film, REC 4: Apocalypse, followed by Muse (2017), which premeried at Sitges, and The Vault (2021).

FILMOGRAFIA

Alicia (cm, 1994), Días sin luz (cm, 1995), Nova ficció (ep. La ciutat de la sort, mm, tv, 1997), Los sin nombre (Nameless - Entità nascosta, 1999), Ot: la película (doc., 2002), Darkness (id., 2002), Frágiles (Fragile - A Ghost Story, 2005), Películas para no dormir (ep. Para entrar a vivir; Film per non dormire, ep. Affittasi, tv, 2006), [Rec] (id., coregia Paco Plaza, 2007), [Rec] ² (id., coregia Paco Plaza, 2009), Miedo (cm, 2010), Mientras duermes (2011), [REC] 4: Apocalipsis ([REC] 4, 2014), Inquilinos (cm, 2014), Muse (La settima musa, 2017), Ibai Llanos in Unboxing Ibai (cm, 2020), Way Down (Way Down - Rapina alla banca di Spagna, 2021), Venus (2022).