I discovered Juan Gamero's work with his magnificent documentary Los Karamazoff, and I have been following him until his latest production, which covers the hundred years of La Floresta, the neighborhood where he lives. Gamero works the whole process, from script to post-production, with exquisite precision and with the security and expertise that comes from his long experience in the audiovisual sector. In his own words: "my passion is to film reality with a photographer's eye and try to make the images speak for themselves on a big screen, if possible".
Juan Gamero is a director, screenwriter, photographer, cameraman, editor and independent producer. He has received, among other awards, the Ondas Internacional and his work has been exhibited at the film festivals of Berlin, San Sebastian, INPUT, Expo Sevilla92 and the Pompidou Center in Paris. He started as an assistant film director and collaborated with the magazine Ajoblanco. Producer in TVE-Catalunya, among others, of Metrópolis, Documentos TV, Dos en Raya, Pinnic and Redes; with documentaries on Jaume Plensa, Mariscal, Sisa, or Los niños del 36. Also joint works with Gelabert&Azzopardi, Zotal, Marceline&Sylvestre, Marcelo Tas, Arnau Vilardebó or Jordi Rocosa. Director-screenwriter of the series Prisma (1990/91), Vivir la utopía (1997, ARTE/TVE), and Carme Riera, Escenarios para la felicidad, (2001, series Esta se mí Tierra). Author of the documentary concluding the Olympic Games Barcelona 92; in 1999 he set up Paradocs with Carmen Rodríguez, to produce his own projects, some of them shot in Bali, Ecuador or Mali. He has co-directed, written, filmed and edited the award-winning documentaries En busca del primer europeo (2011, Turkana films) and The Karamazoffs (A walk where the SoHo years)" (2016, Paradocs/La Quimera/TV3 Televisión de Cataluña). His most recent work has consisted of recounting the first 100 years of his neighborhood: La Floresta, 100 years of stories, a 4 and a half hour macro-documentary.
