LA PRIMERA MIRADA

Luis E. Parés

Spain

- 2023

Estreno mundial

In a poor country ruined by a recent war and ruled by a dictatorship, a film school was established which became, unintentionally, a space of freedom. That dream lasted only fifteen years but it changed the history of Spanish cinema forever. Today we have the undergraduate film work of all its students. The first frames shot by those who would mark our lives as movie viewers (Bardem, Berlanga, Saura, Erice, Patino, Summers, Olea, Mercero, Borau...) helps us understand the greatness of their dreams and bears witness to the process of modernization experienced by a country devastated by many traumas.

Luis E. Parés

Born in Madrid in 1982. He has published the books ‘Notes sur l’emigration-Espagne 1960. Apunts per a una pel·lícula invisible’ and ‘Filmar el exilio desde Francia’. Current director of Cineteca Madrid, he has coordinated the TVE program ‘Historia de nuestro cine’ and for six years he worked in the Programming Department of Filmoteca Española. He has been programmer at the Seville, Zinebi, Punto de Vista or Curtocircuito festivals, as well as at institutions such as the Cervantes Institute or the Reina Sofía Museum. He has directed the shorts ‘The Corpse of Time’ (2016) and ‘Los conspiradores’ (2021), as well as writing the script for ‘El futuro’ (Luis López Carrasco, 2014).