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Samuel Sebastian(I)

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Samuel Sebastian is a Spanish filmmaker an playwrighter, son of the painter Ester Rodríguez Ro. History of Art graduate, he got the Extraordinary Award Bachelor and studied a Screenplay Master in the UIMP- Valencia (Spain). He is currently working on his thesis about Independent Cinema Productions in the Digital Era. His work as a filmmaker began in 2005 with the experimental long feature film First silence (El primer silencio, 2006). Since then, he alternates fiction films with social documentaries, videocreations and videoclips. After First Silence, he has made two more long features: The frame of dead (La pausa dels morts, 2011) and The long night of imagination (La larga noche de la imaginación, 2016). He has worked as a writer, producer, director or editor in countries such as Morocco, Syria, United States, France, Switzerland, Uganda, Spain, UK, Guinea, Panama, Cuba or Azerbaijan. Some of these films and documentaries are Over Azerbaijan's sky (2012, Sagrario Perpiñán), Jeunes et prêts à inventer le futur (2012, Nasser Bakhti), The silent revolution (2014, Oriol Messegué and David Marrades), Teachers (2015, Giovanna Ribes), Al Brown (2017, Carlos Aguilar), Da parish (2017, Lila French, Lizzie Prestel) or Good-bye Mr. Marshall (2017, Bebé Pérez), amongst others. As a director, his films have been screened in festivals from all around the world, amongst others: Cusco (Peru); San Diego (USA); La Paz (Bolivia); Bogocine (Colombia); Rosario and Buenos Aires (Argentina); Lisbon (Portugal); Bilbao, Madrid, Seville, Cordoba, Barcelona and Valencia (Spain); Bolonia, Milano, Syracuse and Torino (Italy); Paris (France); Johannesbourg (South Africa); Baghdad (Irak); Melbourne (Australia); Kampala (Uganda); Bodhisattva (India) or Daklah (Morocco). In 2014 he founded a company of production, GAMANprod, focused on international co-productions. Since its foundation, GAMANprod has produced several films and documentaries. As a writer, he was awarded by his short stories The city of light (2005), A winter without Vera (2007) and Lilith's Letters (2011). Besides, he won the October Theatre Prize with his play The Closed Rooms (2008) about child abuse. In 2019 he is working on his upcoming film, The Utopist
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Samuel Sebastian

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Sabira Hassani in Sabira
Sabira
  • Writer
    Esther Mamadou in Dystopia
    Dystopia
    • Writer
      Mur viu (2007)
      Mur viu
      • Writer
      • 2007
      El primer silencio (2006)
      El primer silencio
      • Writer
      • 2006

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      Writer

      • Dystopia
        • Post-production
      • Feliz no cumpleaños
        • Completed
      • Sabira
        • In Production
      • Women's Kafana (2021)
        Women's Kafana
      • A new normality (2020)
        A new normality
      • Ana Victoria Pérez, Josep Pérez, and Belén Riquelme in Molinos de viento (2020)
        Molinos de viento
      • Diálogos contingentes
      • Kidnapping Tibet (2018)
        Kidnapping Tibet
      • Good Bye Mister Marshall (2017)
        Good Bye Mister Marshall
      • Mem Hassaf, Laye Sy, Zhifei Hao, and Diana Carolina González in Waiting for Europe (2016)
        Waiting for Europe
      • The Long Night of Imagination (2016)
        The Long Night of Imagination
      • Profes, la buena educación (2015)
        Profes, la buena educación
      • Over the Sky of Azerbaijan (2013)
        Over the Sky of Azerbaijan
      • The Frame of Dead (2011)
        The Frame of Dead
      • Las migrantes (2009)
        Las migrantes
      • Maribel Ibáñez García in La moma (2007)
        La moma
      • Mur viu (2007)
        Mur viu
      • Ja en tenim prou

      Producer

      • Dystopia
        • Post-production
      • Sabira
        • In Production
      • Women's Kafana (2021)
        Women's Kafana
      • A new normality (2020)
        A new normality
      • Las flores que arrancas (2020)
        Las flores que arrancas
      • Diálogos contingentes
      • Parcas (2020)
        Parcas
      • Demetrio Gómez in We Queer Roma: Valencia (2019)
        We Queer Roma: Valencia
      • Kidnapping Tibet (2018)
        Kidnapping Tibet
      • Panamá Al Brown: Cuando el puño se abre (2018)
        Panamá Al Brown: Cuando el puño se abre
      • Mem Hassaf, Laye Sy, Zhifei Hao, and Diana Carolina González in Waiting for Europe (2016)
        Waiting for Europe
      • The Long Night of Imagination (2016)
        The Long Night of Imagination
      • The Silent Revolution (2013)
        The Silent Revolution
      • The Frame of Dead (2011)
        The Frame of Dead
      • Las migrantes (2009)
        Las migrantes
      • Maribel Ibáñez García in La moma (2007)
        La moma
      • Mur viu (2007)
        Mur viu

      Director

      • Dystopia
        • Post-production
      • Feliz no cumpleaños
        • Completed
      • Sabira
        • In Production
      • A new normality (2020)
        A new normality
      • Diálogos contingentes
      • Mem Hassaf, Laye Sy, Zhifei Hao, and Diana Carolina González in Waiting for Europe (2016)
        Waiting for Europe
      • The Long Night of Imagination (2016)
        The Long Night of Imagination
      • The Frame of Dead (2011)
        The Frame of Dead
      • Las migrantes (2009)
        Las migrantes
      • Maribel Ibáñez García in La moma (2007)
        La moma
      • Mur viu (2007)
        Mur viu
      • Ja en tenim prou
      • El primer silencio (2006)
        El primer silencio

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      DYSTOPIA, trailer
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      DYSTOPIA, trailer
      Samuel Sebastian, 2016 reel
      Demo Reel 4:38
      Samuel Sebastian, 2016 reel

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        He has two twin daughters, Cora and Ester, born in 2017.

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