Biography
Iván Castell is born in Zaragoza and lives intermittently between Brussels and his home town. Bachelor of Economics with later formation in Audio-visual Language, his favourite film-makers are David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Gus Van Sant and the Dardenne brothers.
He has directed seven shortfilms since 2000. Its second work, Lea, was selected in 2001 by the Huesca Film Festival (Festival de Cine de Huesca) for a show of Aragonese cinema. Its actress, Ana Esteban, received the prize of best Aragonese actress at the Festival Jóvenes Realizadores Ciudad de Zaragoza (Young Film-makers Zaragoza Festival).
In 2002 he is one of the 24 people selected, between aspirants of all over Spain, to be part of the Taller Bigas Luna (Tarragona), a course given by the well-known Spanish film director Bigas Luna. In 2003 Iván Castell joins the team of the Zaragoza Taller Bigas Luna as one of the assistants.
In 2007, and after a break in his cinematographic activity, he direct his second professional shortfilm, Nave #527. Nineties'child and unconditional Nirvana’s fan, he has two cats and lives in Zaragoza.
Filmography
2007 Nave #527 (HD, 19 min.)
2002 Violence (DV, 2 min.)
2002 La despedida (DV, 3 min.)
2002 Encerrado (DV, 7 min.)
2001 12h15 (DV, 3 min.)
2000 Lea (DVCAM, 18 min.)
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