About
Antonio Rodrigo 1983
Spanish Film Director (Andalusia), specialist in Documentary Films, trained in Documentary Film and Reportage at the Andalusian Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Meridiana Academy), and Master in Audiovisual Communication through the Andalusian Public Audiovisual Foundation, he completed his studies in Barcelona, specializing in Ethnographic Documentary Film (La Casa del Cine de Barcelona, 2009).
During his more than 15 years of experience in Social Documentary Films, his work has been recognized in numerous national and international festivals (see annex) and he has produced and directed projects for entities such as National Geographic, IFC, World Bank, GlobalCad, collaborating with numerous organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa, specializing in social communication projects as well as in communication in international cooperation.
Recently, in the last edition of the Andalusian Film Writers Association Awards, ASECAN (2023), he has been nominated for "Re-Generation, Another world is possible" (2022), his latest environmental awareness short film. His feature film "The hidden messages of Ganga" (2020) has been awarded as best cinematography at the Orion International Film Festival, and has been selected for participation in numerous international festivals (see attached), highlighting the special section of the Barcelona Asian Film Festival, where Antonio was also part of the jury of the NETPAC section (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema). He premiered in 2022, "LIMBO, the forgotten promise" (2021), at the Seville European Film Festival. This feature film has also been present in the official section of the Sahara International Film Festival and in the official selection 5th Refugees Film Festival, Berlin (2022). In 2021 he produced and co-directed "Teselas, el poder transformador del viaje" which received the first prize at the Magellan-Elcano Social Innovation Congress, an international event commemorating the V Centenary of the first round the world voyage, becoming a permanent part of the official archive for the documentation of this historical milestone.
Since his first short film, "Felling from the outside" (2007), he was selected to represent Spain at the Biennial of Young Artists of the Mediterranean (Skopje, Macedonia 2009), receiving the award for best short film, and in 2008 he collaborated with filmmaker Fernando Franco in the feature film for children, "La isla de la magia", produced by Canal Sur and Teyso Media Ficción, which received 18 nominations for the 2010 Goya Awards.
As a photographer and videographer, he founded the Audiovisual Communication Agency CodolStudio (Ibiza, 2011) specializing in architecture, design and creative communication projects, developing the image of international Bollywood artists like Kareena Kapoor, and others like Carlinhos Brown or Bob Sinclar, as well as brands such as Harper's Bazaar, Pachá or Honest Music.
The collaboration in the film "Pan sin Techo" (Barcelona, 2009), with the director Ricardo Íscar (one of the referents of Spanish documentary film, awarded with a Golden Bear at the Berlinale), is the definitive re-orientation of his filmography, which will be marked by his previous intense experience in audiovisual and music marketing, evident in the impeccable production of his subsequent documentary production, eminently social in nature. Since 2009, this documentary is in the audiovisual archive of the Catalan Autonomous Television, TV3.
Currently, through NomaDocs, an audiovisual business project in which he is producer and CEO, and which has allowed him to combine documentary filmmaking and international cooperation.
Among the productions of NOMADOCS, the documentary series Across the Rivers, (ethnographic documentary series through the most emblematic rivers of the planet), presented at the headquarters of Casa Asia in Barcelona, (diplomatic organism of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, organizer of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona, reference and meeting place in Spain regarding the culture of Asia and the Pacific), and is scheduled to be presented at the headquarters in Madrid next fall.
On the other hand, NomaDocs is currently developing the cultural-educational project Atlas DOCS, which aims to be a meeting point and twinning between the peoples of the Mediterranean through its heritage, using documentary film as an educational tool for territorial cohesion. Atlas Docs has been promoted through the Magallanes Program for the creative-cultural industries, co-financed by the Interreg Spain-Portugal Program of the European Union.
Finally, during 2022, it has carried out the exhibition on documentary film and photography "Invisibles, just as we are", at the Museum of Popular Arts and Customs of Seville, an emblematic space of the city dependent on the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of the Regional Government of Andalusia, with the aim of organizing next fall the First Documentary Film Festival of Andalusia, which would be held biennially.
ANEXO
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2023 Re-Generation, Another world is possible - Nominated to the 35th ASECAN of Andalusian Cinema.
2022 Re-Generation, Another world is possible - Nominated at the Certamen de Cortometrajes de la Provincia de Sevilla.
2021 Teselas, el poder transformador del viaje - First prize 2nd Magellan - Elcano Innovation Congress.
2021 The hidden messages of Ganga - Nominated in NETPAC at the BCN Asian Film Festival.
2020 Amalia 2nd Prize Cultura Inquieta "Historias de nuestros mayores" (Stories of our elders) Microfilm contest.
2018 The hidden messages of Ganga - Best cinematography Orion International Festival.
2009 Feeling from the Outside - First prize in the XII Creation Contest "Fronteras de papel" Ayuntamiento de Sevilla.
2009 Feeling from the Outside - Best Documentary Short Film Award "Espartinas de Cine" Festival of Sevilla.
PRESENCE AT FESTIVALS AND EXHIBITIONS
2022 Limbo, the forgotten promise - International Sahara Film Festival FISAHARA
2022 Limbo, the forgotten promise - Official selection 5th Refugees Film Festival, Berlin
2022 Invisibles, just as we are - Museum of Popular Arts and Customs of Seville
2021 The hidden messages of Ganga - Terres Travels Festival
2021 The Hidden Messages of Ganga - SUNCINE Film and Environment Festival
2021 Limbo, the forgotten promise - Beyond Borders - International Documentary Film Festival of Castellorizo, Greece.
2021 Limbo, the Forgotten Promise - EATSA Film Festival
2021 Limbo, the Forgotten Promise BCN Film and Human Rights Festival
2021 Limbo, the Forgotten Promise Periferias Festival - Marváo International Film Festival
2021 The hidden messages of Ganga - Periferias Festival - Marváo International Film Festival
2021 The Hidden Messages of Ganga - Barcelona International Asian Film Festival
2020 Limbo, the forgotten promise - Seville International European Film Festival - Andalusian Panorama
2018 The Hidden Messages of Ganga - Orion International Festival
2018 The Hidden Messages of Ganga - Filmoteca de Murcia Presentation
2018 Feeling from the Outside Centro de Documentación de las Artes Escénicas de Andalucía.
2017 Feeling from the Outside 24th La Alternativa Sala Pantalla Libre Barcelona Independent Film Festival.
2016 Feeling from the Outside Social Documentary Film Series, Teatro España de Ibiza, Spain.
2011 Homeless Bread - Social documentary for TV3 - Docs Barcelona Workshop.
2010 Feeling from the Outside Antrophofest International Anthropology Film Festival. Prague, Czech Republic.
2010 Feeling from the OutsideVideo Dance Festival, Cuba.
2010 Feeling from the Outside Video Dance Festival, Ecuador.
2009 Feeling from the Outside 40th International Documentary Film Festival Alcances, Spain,
2009 Feeling from the Outside Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Athens.
2009 Feeling from the Outside Exclusion in dance, Buenos Aires.
2009 Feeling from the Outside XIV Edition of the Biennial of Young Mediterranean Artist BJCEM, Skopje, Macedonia.
