Julu Martínez

Graduate in Audiovisual Communication, director, screenwriter and art director. His short films Acantilado (2018) and Los Colores Pardos (2017) were awarded at national and international festivals, respectively highlighting the awards at the First Flame International Film Festival (Pune, India) or La Meko International Film Festival (Landau, Germany). In addition, these have been disseminated in institutions such as MACBA (Barcelona) or CA2M (Madrid), as well as in various Spanish universities (UCM, UC3M, URJCI). In 2019 he is a finalist in the Young Creators Contest of the Madrid City Council and Second Prize in the Young Artists Contest of Castilla y León.For several years he is part of the Sub21 collective of the Center for Contemporary Art of the Community of Madrid (CA2M, 2015-2018) and of the II Edition of young programmers of the Cineteca from Madrid, Cinezeta (2019). In 2020 he is selected in several national laboratories (FICX Pro Gijón, Queer Cine Lab, Links Cerdanya) and receives awards in Foro Emergente! and the Skyline Benidorm Film Festival script contest for his short film “Map of emotional geography”, which, after several years of development, will be released at the end of the year with the support of the Cantabrian government and ICAA 2022, by PicoTresCine y Pantalla. Departure.In 2021 he received a double award for his short film Nicaragua (2021), receiving the Film Residency from the Valencia Cinema Jove Festival, with mentions for best script and direction, and a year later he received the award for Best Pitch/Project at Curt Creixent, within the framework from the same festival. In 2021 he receives a youth retrospective at the Joan Miró Foundation, within the framework of the U22 Cinema Jove Festival in Barcelona. He is currently preparing his next projects while he begins to develop his feature film ¿Dónde están los ladrones? awarded as a project in the last edition of the Gijón Film Festival (Semilleru Kids, FICX 2023).