Pablo García Pérez de Lara (born 29 October 1970), is a Spanish

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and

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. He is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed African documentaries such as ''

Tchindas ''Tchindas'' is a 2015 Spanish-Cape Verdean documentary film directed by Pablo García Pérez de Lara and Marc Serena. The film premiered at the Outfest Los Angeles 2015 where it received a Grand Jury Award. Plot In the Atlantic Ocean, the tin ...

''.

Personal life

He was born in 1970 in

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. He studied at the Center d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (CECC).

Career

In 1996, he started his directorial debut with the film ''Fuente Álamo, the Caress of Time'' as a project grant from the Barcelona Alternativa festival. He completed the film in 2001 and then selected at the SEMINCI in Valladolid. The film had official selection in Karlovy Vary. Then in 2007, he made the film ''Butterfly'' which made the official section of Karlovy Vary and San Sebastián. In 2015, he made the critically acclaimed documentary ''

'' co-directed with

Marc Serena Marc Serena (born 1983), is a Spanish filmmaker, journalist and author. He is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed African documentaries such as ''Tchindas'', ''Peixos d'aigua dolça'' and ''The Writer from a Country Without Book ...

. It was selected in several international film festivals and won 14 international awards. The film later won

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's Grand Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. In 2002, he made the short film ''Alicia Portrayed'' which was selected by the Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week in 2003. In the meantime, Pablo made the two documentaries ''Son de Galicia'' in 2006 and ''Mura, un poble de cine'' in 2010 for television. Then he worked as the cinematographer of the critically acclaimed 2009 documentary ''Familystrip''. In 2011, he made the documentary ''Oblidant a Nonot''. It received the City of Alcalá award at Alcine 2011, as well as the Audience Award at l'Alternativa de Barcelona 2011 and Best Short Film in Sign Language at Cinemobile de Sevilla 2011. Then in 2012, he was the cinematographer of the film ''El efecto K. El montador de Stalin'' which was screened in 60 international festivals across the globe.

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