Cuarto Creciente

ROQUE MADRID studied Filmmaking at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the New York Film Academy. There he produced and successfully screened his first two short films: “Paul’s Pictures” and “These things do happen”, receiving a special mention that year in the Munich Short Film Festival. After working on television (“Ana y los 7”, “El faro de Alejandría”) and films (“Carmen”, “Cachorro”) he founded Cuarto Creciente, a production company. In advertising he has worked for large companies such as Vodafone, Nokia, Kellogg’s and Ferrero. He directed the documentaries, “Piedra sobre piedra” and “Sirius”. In 2006 he produced the documentary “Sandra or Luis” that won the Best Documentary award for at the LesGaiCineMad. In 2007 he created and directed his first television show: “Explorers”. He has directed the films “Escóndete” and “The Return of Elias Urquijo”. In 2012 he won the Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Cannes Film Festival with his short film “Talking dog for sale, 10 euros”.

JUAN ARCONES (Madrid, 1986) has graduated in Communication Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2009. During his studies, he made numerous short films. One of them, “Samuel Novillo”, won the AURA Award by the Com- plutense University for Best Screenplay, as well as being selected for screening at the Graduation promotion 2004-2009 ceremony. He also studied at the prestigious New York Film Academy where he directed three short films and participated in another seven from other academy members. He’s been a film critic at the website “El confidencial”, and wrote the screenplay for the adventure short film: “Destino Cuenca, La aventura del Santo Grial“ destined to sponsor the city of Cuenca over the world. Currently, the short film has been released in several local and regional television stations in the peninsula and in the high- speed train between Madrid and Cuenca.