Abel Azcona: The Triggering Artist

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Duration: 01:02:00
Languaje: Spanish
Category: Documentary
Project Type: Documentary, Feature
Synopsis: Abel Azcona acquired international relevance as a result of a series of performance works that have aroused enormous controversy by raising a reflection on some of the great social, political and ideological challenges of the Western world

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Submitter Biography:
Karlos Alastruey is a filmmaker from Bilbao, based in the Canary Islands. He started making films in 2003 after a visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina that impressed him. He has created critically-acclaimed films that have screened worldwide at over 100 international film festivals and earned more than 40 awards. His work deals with the human identity, the condition of woman, and the teenage viewpoint (in his words, "the most sincere age in a human life"). He creates films with surreal, fantasy and experimental elements. Sitges International Film Festival reserved a full slot to premiere three of his films in 2012. His feature film "Sometime in the Night" (2016) received the award to best foreign feature at the prestigious Action On Film Festival 2016, California.