Adrián Silvestre

Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid, Degree in Management from the School of Cinema and Audiovisual de Madrid (ECAM) and Master of Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the National Art Museum Queen Sofia. He has also completed a specialization in Project Development Film and TV and another in Curating Film Festivals at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (E.I.C.T.V.), Cuba. He has recently been a fellow at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome and the Academy of France / Casa de Velázquez. In his film projects, explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, staging professional actresses with real people. Assumes the artistic practice from the analysis of everyday experience. His films are usually preceded by a process of working closely with specific communities. They are participatory process where dialogue is generated transversely implements the gender perspective and the empowerment of participants is encouraged. One of his most notable projects is "Exit: un Corto a la Carta"; a fiction film inspired by real experiences, developed with the stage director Beatriz Santiago and a group of 30 immigrant women living in Madrid. "Exit" has an interactive display format, since its narrative development is determined by the viewer. Each viewing has 8 possible outcomes, defining the different social, cultural and economic realities of women who participated in the film. The project was supported by Obra Social La Caixa and the Middle-E space - Matadero Madrid, and premiered at the Cinematheque in 2012. In 2012 he moved to Cuba with help young artists of the Community of Madrid, and directed the documentary Natalia Nikolaevna, about a Soviet singer who for two decades survives lyrical singing in the streets of Cienfuegos. Natalia resides in the C.E.N. near urban point where they began to build what would be the first nuclear power plant in Cuba; project abandoned in 1991 with the fall of the Communist Megastate. The documentary premiered in the official documentary section of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga. Spanish cinema in 2014. "Los Objetos Amorosos", his first feature film, takes its starting point the study of female migration in the city of Rome. Production was preceded by a process of three-month investigation, where he scheduled a series of workshops to exchange experiences with migrant women living in three European cities: Rome, Madrid and Germersheim. Its release is scheduled for 2016.