Biography

Pedro Jaén R.

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Pedro Jaén R. was born on February 15, 1982 in Lucena, Spain. His parents were both school teachers. He began a self-taught in 1996, after working with various magazines. At this stage, from 1997 to 2000, are a large number of CGI works, literary stories and his first short films. In 2000 he went to Madrid to study Audiovisual Communication at the European University, graduating in 2005. He worked on numerous short films, among them X-Y (2004). He completed his learning with the director/producer Antonio Gonzalo, the prestigious scriptwriter Syd Field, and at the ECAM. Since 2007 he has shot several short films, among them Oftalmós (2007), Salvación (2011), Cuando nieva sobre el hielo del infierno (2012) and Orpheize (2015), being selected and awarded in several festivals around the world, and attending some as prestigious as Cannes, San Sebastian or Sitges.
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Jaén R.

He often refers to mythology and his stories or characters rewire a classical myth, metaphorically.
Frequently, some characters are doctors and argument refers to a disease, as a catharsis of hypochondria of the author.
The protagonist of his films is almost always a lonely sociopath, who defends his individualism against a sick or harmful society.
His endings have a recurring theme of reincarnation (sometimes more directly and other times more metaphorically).
In the background, usually a corporation (with some name acronym) controls the fate.

Since 2008 he is the boyfriend of the assistant Wilma Menelik.
In the schoolyard, he directs his teammates playing Spiderman comic. In addition to directing, he always chose the Spidey role for himself and he was getting the most beautiful of her partners interpreted to M.J.
Uncle (and non-official "father") of the actors Paula Beatriz Menelik and Tomásnuel Menelik.
When he saw Jurassic Park (1993) in his pre-adolescence, he was fascinated and decided to pursue filmmaking.
Spent his childhood watching classical films, reading comics (mainly of "Capitán Trueno") and novels (mainly of Sherlock Holmes and Jules Verne ).

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