Adrià Guxens

Tarragona, 1992

Adrià Guxens (Tarragona, 1992) graduated cum laude in Journalism from the UAB and in Film Direction from ESCAC.

His first student short film, La Puerta, was selected at the Toronto Festival (TIFF KIDS) in 2018. That same year, he presented UN INSTANTE, which accumulated almost a million views on YouTube. In 2019 he premiered at ZINEBI his short documentary JIN TIAN BU HUI XIA YU (I Don't Think It Is Going To Rain), which also received a Silver Biznaga at the Malaga Festival in the Cinema Cocina Official Section. In parallel, his final degree project, the short film PRELUDI, premieres at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival.

He has been a juror in competitions such as Venice, Sitges, or Guadalajara. In 2017 he joined the Venice Days programming team and since 2021 he has been the LGBTI+ shorts curator at Raindance. He has also worked as secretary of the jury at the Sitges Festival since 2018 and is a directing and screenwriting professor at ESCAC, La Casa del Cine Barcelona, and the Karloff Studio.

He is currently developing his first feature film, TRES CANCIONES, produced by Corte A Films, which has already been selected at the Brussels Co-Production Forum or ABYCINE Lanza and which won a development Award at FICX Pro (Gijón).