Jaume Balagueró i Bernat (Lleida, 3 November 1968) is a film director Spanish.
Biography
Born on 3 November 1968 in Lleida. Specializing in horror, more specifically on the slopes of “psychological” terror. He graduated in Communication sciences and studied film at the Centre d’Estudis cinematogràfics de catalunya (CECC). He was a journalist and radio presenter (“foam of days”, in Radio Hospitalet) that would succeed at the Sitges Festival of addressing his first work in film, the short film “Alice”. His second short film it would consolidate style lasted in his following works and attract the interest of the producers.
In 1999 he directed his first feature film, the unnamed, adapted from the novel by ramsey campbell, won the gold Meliès to best European fantastic film of the year, assuming their take-off at the international level.
In 2002 he directed together with Paco Plaza OT: film, a documentary about the television program that sparked so many passions that year, which was a follow-up to the vicissitudes of the Group of singers.
His two following films for which has been able to count with larger budgets and prestigious actors in Europe and United States intervention underpin a work acclaimed throughout the world for lovers of the genre, consistently and very personal, no longer by the revisitación of recurring themes that has managed to embrace, but by the use of certain expressive resources (masks anti-gas, old radio transistors, the old family portraits, and the famous “Balagueró effect”, a sort of used at a time “sinister” strobe effect that manages to recreate an atmosphere really uneasy without necessarily referring to too explicit gruesomeness.)
Member of the jury of the first contest of short films by mobile phone held in Sant Feliu de Guíxols in 2007.
Filmography
Year Movie
2012 REC – Apocalypse
2010 Flatmate
2010 Fear (short film)
2009 [REC] 2
2007 [REC]
2006 To go to live
2005 Fragile
2002 Darkness
2002 OT – the movie
1999 The unnamed
1995 Days without light
1994 Alícia
