Guillermo GARCÍA LÓPEZ

Guillermo García López was born in 1985 in Madrid. His first film, Frágil Equilibrio (2016), premiered at IDFA and won the Goya for Best Documentary Feature, as well as many other awards and selections for festivals in Austin, Edinburgh, Valladolid, Reykjavik, Los Angeles, Montevideo, Teheran, and Thessaloniki, among others. His series Atlánticas (2019), made up by 3 x 60’ films, Deshielo, Inmersión, and Oscilación, opened on RTVE. In 2020, Guillermo received the prestigious Princess of Girona Award for Arts and Literature. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents Campus. Teaches film at the Master of Architectural Communication at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, carrying out projects that intersect cinema and architecture, like his piece Lo-Tech Reality (2020), collaboration with the Underground Resistance collective in Detroit. He is currently writing his first fiction feature, Ciudad Sin Sueño – also selected for the Torino Film Lab, for the Spanish Film Academy Residency and the Berlinale Script Station, as well as creating a cinema school for young people at one of the largest illegal settlements in Europe, in Madrid, that will be the setting of his film.