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Aleix Torrecillas

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  • Special Effects
  • Art Department
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Aleix was born in Barcelona in the early 80's, glorious era of film fantasy, monsters and creatures.

He grew up hooked to the TV watching fantasy movies like Labyrinth, Dark Crystal or the Goonies.

From an early age works inside audiovisual industry by making TV commercials as an actor for advertising. But his real obsession since childhood was the special makeup.

At the age of 15 works for the first time behind the camera as set decorator assistant for a shortfilm and a year later began studying makeup. Years later in 2004 finally gets to work for the first time for DDT SFX team, led by David Marti and Montse Ribe. There he learns over the years the craft and business collaborating on films like Pan's labyrinth, The impossible or The skin I live in.

Otherwise to fill downtime jobless, Aleix opens his own shop called Zero SFX special effects where he combines low-budget productions with classes to train future prosthetic makeup artists. Over the years, Zero has been getting gradually bigger and needs to separate its two lines of business as zerosfx.com where we make special effects makeup, prosthetics, special props for film industry, and zerosfxtraining.com the place where we train future artists in areas like prosthetics, animatronics, sculpture and conceptual art.

Today the country in which he lives and works does not guarantee a minimum of stability. So he is forced to seek productions outside his country.
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Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (2009)
Broken Embraces
7.2
  • Special Effects
  • 2009
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Oaklee Pendergast, Tom Holland, and Samuel Joslin in The Impossible (2012)
The Impossible
7.5
  • Makeup Department(DDT)
  • 2012
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth
8.2
  • Makeup Department(DDT SFX)
  • 2006
Rachel Weisz in Agora (2009)
Agora
7.1
  • Makeup Department
  • 2009

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Makeup Department

  • El mestre que va prometre el mar
    • Post-production
  • Vincent doit mourir
    • Post-production
  • Sisi Stringer and Daniela Nieves in Vampire Academy (2022)
    Vampire Academy
  • Yon González in Heirs to the Land (2022)
    Heirs to the Land
  • Vida perfecta (2019)
    Vida perfecta
  • Lluís Marco, Sílvia Sabaté, Joan Frank Charansonnet, and Marta Castellví in El Espiritista (2020)
    El Espiritista
  • The Barcelona Vampiress (2020)
    The Barcelona Vampiress
  • Miki Esparbé in Valley of the Dead (2020)
    Valley of the Dead
  • Mark Hamill and Tom Cullen in Knightfall (2017)
    Knightfall
  • The Glorious Seven (2019)
    The Glorious Seven
  • The Year of the Plague (2018)
    The Year of the Plague
  • Ray Stevenson and David Oakes in Cold Skin (2017)
    Cold Skin
  • Laia (2016)
    Laia
  • Alejo Sauras, Rodrigo Guirao Díaz, and Ana Fernández in Just a Little Chemistry (2015)
    Just a Little Chemistry
  • Ultravioleta (2014)
    Ultravioleta
  • Panzer Chocolate (2013)
    Panzer Chocolate
  • Un día especial (2013)
    Un día especial

Special Effects

  • The Barcelona Vampiress (2020)
    The Barcelona Vampiress
  • Club Super 3 (1991)
    Club Super 3
    • ...
  • El crac (2014)
    El crac
  • Lewis MacDougall in A Monster Calls (2016)
    A Monster Calls
  • Animals (2012)
    Animals
  • Painless (2012)
    Painless
  • Rhesus
  • Open Graves (2009)
    Open Graves
  • Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (2009)
    Broken Embraces
  • Versus (2008)
    Versus
  • Crackòvia (2008)
    Crackòvia
  • A Mariñeira (2008)
    A Mariñeira
  • Jeffrey Combs, Erik Palladino, Tatina de Marinis, Andrew Lee Potts, Robert Malina, Emil Markov, Steven Pacey, Andrew Pleavin, Steve Richards, Roee Sharon, Jonathan Tzachor, Cerina Vincent, Robb White, Kes Bonnet, Emil Tonev, Charles Venn, Amanda Righetti, Hristo Parvanov, George Zlatarev, Víctor Garcia, Frederik Wiedmann, Nikolai Iliev, Calita Rainford, Tom Riley, Gil Kolirin, William Massa, Laia Colàs, Oksana Borbat, Tanya Kozhuharova, Deian Dinev, Maria Georgieva, Miroslav Petrov, Stilyana Mitkova, Xeniya Fesenko, Jasmina Jekova, Jasminne Majid, Nikolai Chobanov, Tanya Nedeleva, Iva Atanasova, and Lyubo Yonchev in Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007)
    Return to House on Haunted Hill
  • Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
    Pan's Labyrinth
  • Poliedro (2005)
    Poliedro

Art Department

  • Psicario (2022)
    Psicario
  • Ernesto Sevilla, Carlos Santos, and David Verdaguer in I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019)
    I Can Quit Whenever I Want

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