The UB hosts a master class given by the documentary film-maker Fernando López Mirones
On Wednesday 12 November, the prestigious film-maker and biologist Fernando López Mirones gives a master class at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Geology of UB, within the activities included in the 21st edition of the Environmental International Film Festival (FiCMA), hosted by the University of Barcelona. The activity is open to the public.
On Wednesday 12 November, the prestigious film-maker and biologist Fernando López Mirones gives a master class at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Geology of UB, within the activities included in the 21st edition of the Environmental International Film Festival (FiCMA), hosted by the University of Barcelona. The activity is open to the public.
Àlex Aguilar, director of the Biodiversity Research Institute of the UB (IRBio) and professor from the Department of Animal Biology of UB, presents the session that begins at 4 p.m. with the screening of the documentary Guadalquivir, by Joaquín Gutiérrez Acha. It is the first nature film which was completely shot in Spain. Then, at 5.30 p.m., López Mirones gives a master class about the project, in which he worked as scriptwriter and received the medal conferred by the Writers Circle for the best documentary film. The film was nominated as best documentary on the latest edition of the Goya Awards; it shows the existing life next to the Guadalquivir river when it runs through Cazorla, Serra Bruna and Doñana, and the landscape of these three amazing places during different year's seasons.
The new Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente
Prestigious documentary film-maker and biologist, Fernando López Mirones (Pontevedra, 1964) ―many people name him "the new Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente"― has written and directed more than 120 international documentary films on natural history and environmental anthropology, for instance the productions of the National Geographic Television (Heartbeat of the forest, The last lynx of Spain) and the BBC Natural History Unit (Bush demon), shot in Spain. Some of them have received international awards such as The mountains of the wolf, winner of the Naturvision Film Festival 2003 of Germany in the category of best story.