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Date and Place of Birth
24th August
1980
(Salta - Argentina)
Place of Residence: Madrid -
Spain
E-Mail.
info[at]enikpro[dot]com
Subject: ATT: Mariel Macia
Webpage:
www.enikpro.com
Education
- Image and Sound Designer,
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998/2003)
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Degree in Film Direction,
Septima Ars
Film School, Madrid,
Spain (2003/2006)
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Mariel Maciá is a
young director supported by multiple international recognitions.
Since 2009 she is the Head of Industry and Market for LesGaiCineMad -
Madrid International LGTB Film Festival.
Graduated as an Image and Sound Designer at the University of Buenos Aires
(Argentina) and specialized in Film Direction in Madrid, she has written
and directed several shortfilms internationally awarded in Spain, the USA and
Brazil. She won the Best Shortfilm award for two consecutive years at Lesgaicinemad (Madrid International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival). In 2006
thanks to her short "Flowers at the Park (or first kisses)" that was also
selected as one of the best women shorts of the world by Curve Magazine
- USA) and the subsequent year with her short "At Home (or love as well)".
She has
been a Jury Member at shortfilm contests and she has thaught Audio-Visual
Narrative Structures and Filmmaking courses in Spain and
Argentina. She is often invited to participate in Round Tables, Seminars
and Congresses regarding independent cinema, women, gender and sexual
diversity issues. From 2007 she is a member of CIMA (Spanish Women Filmmakers
Association).
In 2008 she started her career in dramaturgy and theatrical direction with
the play
"Fancy Pastry
Monologues"*
(original title: Monólogos de Bollería Fina) that has had a massive
success
in Madrid and Barcelona and it´s
currently
on tour in Spain.
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* Pastry = Bollería = Spanish slang for lesbian //
At Home
(or love as well)
Spain
2008 Scriptwriter, Director and
Executive Producer
original title: A domicilio (o
incluso también el amor)
(currently under distribution)
- BEST SHORTFILM -
12. LesGaiCineMad Madrid International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- BEST MEDIUM FICTION FILM - 20. Cineffable
Paris International Film Festival
- BEST FEMALE SHORTFILM - 8. Long Island Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival (New York USA)
- BEST SHORTFILM - 4- Festival del Sol (Canary
Islands)
- Supported by
the European Union Youth Programme
Flowers at the
park (or first kisses)
Spain
2006
Scriptwriter and Director
original title: Flores en el
Parque (o los primeros Besos)
- Selected
as
one of the WORLD´S BEST WOMEN SHORTS by Curve Magazine
(USA 2007)
- BEST SPANISH FILM -
LesGaiCineMad Madrid International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Spain
2006)
- BEST SHORT FILM -
LesGaiCineMad Madrid International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Spain
2006)
- BEST VIDEO SHORTFILM
- Islantilla International Film Festival (Huelva-Spain 2007)
- BEST LESBIAN
DRAMATIC SHORT - QCinema International Film Festival Fort Worth´s
(Texas-USA)
- BEST ACTRESS - DIANA
DIEZ - Dunas Shortfilm Festival (Fuerteventura-Spain 2007)
- BEST SHORTFILM -
Cinegailast International Film Festival (Gijón-España 2007)
- "SILVER RABBIT" for
BEST SHORTFILM - Sao Paulo Internacional Short Film Festival (Brazil
2007)
Leo
and
Abril (or
a tale about a script)
Spain
2006
Scriptwriter, Director, Editor and
Executive Producer
original title: Leo y Abril (o la historia de un guión)
- 1º Prize NISIMASA
SCRIPT CONTEST SPAIN 2004.
- Finalist at the NISIMASA SCRIPTWRITING CONTEST EUROPE 2004.
- Supported by
the European Union Youth Programme
Goodbye
(or the argentinean crisis),
Argentina
2003
Scriptwriter and Director
original title:
Despedida (o la crisis argentina)
- Awarded at the University of Buenos Aires
Screenwriting Contest 2002
- Selected to be part of The New Talent Campus of Argentinean Design 2003
- Selected for the XXIV FEJOREL Festival of Latin Americans
Directors 2004
- Finalist of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Shortfilm Contest 2004
Fancy Pastry Monologues
Spain 2008
Scriptwriter and Director
original title: Monólogos de Bollería Fina
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Premiered in
Madrid and
Barcelona with great audience and
specialized press success.
(on
tour)
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Cultural Managment |
Head of Industry and Market LesGaiCineMad -
Madrid International LGTB Film Fest
June 2009 –
Now Company. Fundación Triangulo
Responsible for organizing
the 1st LGTB Film Market.
Design the strategy. Organize Debates and Seminars.
Events and Guest Coordination. Presentation of the
project worlwide.
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Nisimasa Scriptwriting Contest -
Coordinator in Spain
Jan
2005 – Oct 2005. Company. NISIMASA SPAIN
In Spain
(Regional Contest):
In charge of Communications as well as scripts, authors and jury reception and coordination.
En
Berlín
(European
Jury Meeting):
Spanish Group Coordinator
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Teaching |
Coordinator of Shortfilm
Workshop
January 2007.
Fuerteventura Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Spain)
Tasks: Give theoretical and practical
classes on filmmaking. Organize and coordinate the shooting of a
shortfilm based on the Contest winning script.
Assistant Teacher
April 2002 – March 2003.
University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Subject:
Audio Visual Narrative Structures
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Jury
Member |
2006 and 2007 -
Fuerteventura Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival (Spain)
2005 - Nisimasa Europe Scriptwriting Contest
(Berlin)
2005 - Nisimasa Spain Scriptwriting Contest
(Madrid)
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Speaker
2008
(summary)
2007
2005
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“Lesbian
visibility”
-
Diversa 08 LGTB
Cultural Festival (Elche
- Spain)
“Lesbian
visibility in cinema”
Madrid Pride Celebration
Program (Spain)
“Cinema
Encounters:
Women on film”
- Internationa
Congress of Women in Arts
– University of
Madrid and
University of
Castilla la Mancha (Spain)
“Spanish
Independent Cinema and Sexual Diversity”
– Universidad
Complutense of
Madrid (Spain)
“Cultural
studies and genre”
–
Carlos III University
(Spain)
“Unique stories for a
unified Europe” Presentation
of a Report at the Interfilm International Short Film Festival about
the Spanish scripts participants of the European scriptwriting contest
"Nisimasa Europe"
(Berlin
- Germany)
“The
Great Debate around Globalization”
- CSIC Institute of Philosopy presenting the shortfilm
“Goodbye
(or the argentinean
crisis)”
"Shortfilm
Goodbye (or the Argentinean crisis)" Presentation
at the University of Salamanca - Iberoamerican and Portuguese Study Center
(2004)
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University |
Image and Sound Designer,
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998/2003),
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Degree |
Film Direction
Septima Ars, Madrid, Spain (2003/2006)
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Courses |
Production, Management and
Distribution of Plays SGAE,
Madrid, Spain (2007)
Shortfilm Production
- Sandra Hermida and Koldo Zuazua at
Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2007)
Grants Management at Casa
Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2007)
Negotiation and Communication Skills
at Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
(2007)
Scriptwriting Workshop
“Write it short!”
at
Premiers
Plans Film Festival, Angers, France, (January 2005)
Postproduction (450
hs), Septima Ars, Madrid, Spain (2005)
Scriptwriting
(300 hs), Septima Ars, Madrid, Spain (2004)
Still Photography,
University of
Buenos Aires, Argentina (2001)
Theatrical Cultural Entertainer,
Instituto Vocacional de Arte, Buenos Aires
- Argentina
(1994/1998)
+ Audiovisual Production,
History
of the Arts and Contemporary Cultural Movements in
San Pablo (Brazil)
and
Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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