CARLOS CASAS, Barcelona 1974

Carlos Casas filmmaker and visual artist. his work is a cross between documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual arts. His last two films have been awarded in festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, to Buenos Aires, and some of his video works have been presented in collective and personal exhibitions.

In 2001 he started a trilogy of work dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet, Patagonia, Aral sea, and Siberia.

He is currently working on a film about a  cemetery of elephants on the borders between India and Nepal.

DIRECTOR’S  BIO:

Carlos Casas, Studied Fine Arts, Cinema and Design. In 1998 he was awarded an Artist-in-residence in Fabrica, research and communication center of Benetton, In 2000 his short Film “Afterwords”, produced by Marco Müller and Fabrica Cinema was selected by The Venice Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and Reencontres du Cinema in Paris 2001. In 2001 he started a series of documentaries for Colors Magazine, he traveled to Patagonia to do a fieldwork that later in 2002 became a 24min “Patagonia”, in 2003 he developed a 52 min documentary,”Rocinha. Daylight of a favela” Shot on location in one of the biggest favelas in Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 he finished “Aral. Fishing in an invisible sea” about the life of the three remaining generation of Fishermen in the Aral sea, which won the best documentary award in Torino Film festival 2004, and was selected for the Rotterdam film festival 2005. Visions du reel Nyon 2005, One world Prague 2005, and Documenta Madrid 2005 where it received the special mention from the jury. In may 2005 he finished a 52 min version of the Patagonia research “Solitude at the end of the world” which received the special prize from the Jury in the Buenos Aires International Film festival 2006. He is currently finishing his last project on Siberia, the last chapter of a trilogy of films dedicated to the most extreme environments in the world. (Patagonia, Aral, Siberia)