Samuel Alarcón

Samuel Alarcón Izquierdo (Madrid, 1980) is a filmmaker, communicator, screenwriter, producer, and sound designer. He works in non-fiction, essay film, video creation, as well as sound documentaries. His works have premiered at the Biennale di Venezia, MACRO in Rome, Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla, Documentamadrid, and have been broadcast on Radio Nacional de España. He received a residency at the Real Academia de España in Rome, where he made his first feature film, “La ciudad de los signos” (2009), which won the Audience Award at Documentamadrid 2009. In 2013, he created “El cine que viene,” a radio program for the dissemination of independent Ibero-American cinema on Radio Nacional de España. His second solo feature film, “Oscuro y Lucientes” (2018), addresses the case of the missing head of Francisco de Goya and premiered at the Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla. It won the award for Best Screenplay at Madrid Crealab and the Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Soundtrack. In 2020, he premiered his experimental short film “Déjame Hablar” (2020) dedicated to the musician Luis de Pablo at the Biennale di Venezia and received the award for Best Sound at Alcine in the same year. Also in 2020, he joined the team of “Documentos RNE” as a screenwriter and sound designer. That same year, the program won the Bravo Communication Award in radio and later the Tiflos Journalism Award. In 2022, he premiered “El género chico,” a documentary dedicated to musical theater from the late 19th century in Madrid.