Spanish Scriptwriter, director, fiction and documentary producer.
Ventura Durall I Soler was born in 1974 in Barcelona, Spain. ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya) graduate with a major in script. In 2000 he established the production company NANOUK FILMS with the intention to create an artistic platform of reference in the catalan and european audiovisual scene and a new comunication canal of investigation between documentary and fiction fields. He focus his pedagogical vocation from ESCAC, as he is the head of documentarys department, he supervise the diploma thesis projects and leads the Documentary and Society Master.
His feature film The two lives of Andrés Rabadán which is a fiction take on real Andrés Rabadan's story (that story was simultaneously depicted by Durall in the documentary The Forgiveness) was recognized as the Best European Independent Film in 2009 at the ECU Festival in Paris.

Filmography
2013 | The Wild Years, Documentary / 1hr10mins / Color / Shooting Places: Ethiopa)
2011 | El Somriure Amagat (THE HIDDEN SMILE), Documentary / 13' / Color / Shooting Places: Ethiopa)
2009 | El Perdón (The Forgiveness), Documentary, 64mins, Spain
2008 | Las Dos Vidas de Andrés Rabadán (The two lives of Andrés Rabadán), Feature narrative, 1hr24, Spain
2004 | Isla negra, illa blanca (52', Spain)
2002 | Hablemos del documental (52', Spain)
2001 | La dama dels coloms - together with Sergi Marti (13mins)

Source:
www.altinkozafestivali.org.tr/en/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=297:the-hidden-smile&Itemid=240&lang=en

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TURC
(Barselona, İspanya, 1974) Senaryo yazarı, yönetmen, kurmaca ve belgesel yapımcısı. ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya) mezunu, uzmanlığı senaryo. Katalan ve Avrupa görsel-işitsel sahnesinde bir artistik referans platformu oluşturmak ve belgeselle kurmaca alanları arasında yen bir iletişim kanalı yaratmak amacıyla 2000'de NANOUK FILMS adlı yapım şirketini kurdu. ESCAC'taki Pedagojik formasyonuna yoğunlaştı; Belgesel Bölümü'nün başkanlığını yapıyor, diploma tezi projelerine danışmanlık veriyor, Belgesel ve Toplum Master Programı'nı yönetiyor.

Filmleri
2013 | The Wild Years
2011 El Somriure Amagat
2009 El Perdón
2008 Las Dos Vidas de Andrés Rabadán

Source:
www.altinkozafestivali.org.tr/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=357:gizli-tebessüm&Itemid=243&lang=tr



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CZECH

Ventura Durall I Soler se narodil roku 1974 v Barceloně. Vystudoval scenáristiku na ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya). V roce 2000 založil produkční společnost NANOUK FILMS s ambicemi vytvořit uměleckou platformu pro setkávání katalánské a evropské audiovizuální scény a dokumentárního filmu s filmem hraným. Je vedoucím katedry dokumentu na ESCAC. Má na starosti absolventské projekty studentů a je hlavním pedagogem Documentary and Society Master Programme. Jeho celovečerní hraný film The two lives of Andrés Rabadán (vychází ze skutečného příběhu Andrése Rabadana, který Ventura Durall zpracoval v dokumentu The Forgiveness) získal ocenění pro nejlepší nezávislý evropský film na festivalu ECU v Paříži (2009).

Filmografie:
La dama dels coloms - společne s Sergi Marti (13', Španělsko, 2001)
Hablemos del documental (52', Španělsko, 2002)
Isla negra, illa blanca (52', Španělsko, 2004)
The two lives of Andrés Rabadán (84', Španělsko, 2008)
El Perdón/ The Forgiveness (64', Španělsko, 2009)
El somriure amagat (13', Španělsko, 2011)