Miguel Faus
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About
I'm a 25-year-old filmmaker from Barcelona. I studied Business Administration and Humanities in college, and after that I worked as a copywriter in Miami, New York, and then Madrid for the Spanish advertising agency SCPF, for clients like BMW, IKEA and San Miguel. Then my passion for cinema came knocking. I had directed a few short films in my early teens, and had kept very much in touch with cinema, but through a more theoretical and critical approach: I was a collaborating author for Jot Down Magazine, and through that I was able to conduct very lengthy interviews with several acclaimed directors: Pawel Pawlikowski, Olivier Assayas, Albert Serra, Terence Davies, Whit Stillman, Pedro Costa, Alberto Rodríguez, Isaki Lacuesta… ( . This was great, of course, but I wanted to continue my path towards making my own films. I left the agency, moved back to Barcelona and started working in the industry: I was a Directing Trainee at "The Bookshop" (Isabel Coixet, 2017 – winner of Best Picture at the Goya awards) and was hired by the producers to develop a documentary series based around conversations between established filmmakers, a bit in the spirit of Hitchcock/Truffaut. In January 20...
