{"id":10,"date":"2016-06-02T22:14:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/nuevaweb\/en\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T11:53:39","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1lex Catal\u00e1n began his professional career 35 years ago as a press photographer. He attended film schools in Madrid, London, Los Angeles and\u00a0La Habana and worked for 12 years as camera operator and lighting technician for TVE (Spain\u00a0National Broadcasting Company).<\/p>\n<p>From 2000 on, he focused on professional cinematography and has shot since then <strong>32<\/strong><strong>\u00a0long feature films<\/strong> as director of photography, receiving<strong>\u00a08 Goya nominations<\/strong>\u00a0for <em>After<\/em>, <em>Unit 7<\/em>, <em>Marshland,<\/em>\u00a0<em>A Perfect Day,<\/em><em>\u00a01898, Yuli,<\/em>\u00a0<em>While At War and Prison 77.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2014 he received the <strong>Jury Prize for best cinematography in the 62 edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival <\/strong>and, in 2015, the\u00a0 <strong>Best\u00a0Cinematography Goya award<\/strong>, both for <em>Marshland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 received the <strong>RTVA Career Award<\/strong> and, in 2011 and 2015, the<strong>\u00a0CEC Medal<\/strong>, from the Spanish Cinematographic Writers Association for <em>Even the Rain<\/em> and <em>Marshland,<\/em> as well as <strong>5 Teo Escamilla Awards<\/strong> for the best technical-artistic contribution, awarded by the Andalusian Cinematographic Writer&#8217;s Association. In Mexico he won the Best Cinematography Award in the <strong>Guadalajara 24<sup>th<\/sup> International Film Festival<\/strong> for\u00a0<em>Camino<\/em> and, at New York 2013, the <strong>Tribeca Film Festival<\/strong> special mention for the cinematography of <em>Unit 7<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1lex Catal\u00e1n began his professional career 35 years ago as a press photographer. He attended film schools in Madrid, London, Los Angeles and\u00a0La Habana and worked for 12 years as camera operator and lighting technician for TVE (Spain\u00a0National Broadcasting Company). From 2000 on, he focused on professional cinematography and has shot since then 32\u00a0long feature films as director of photography, receiving\u00a08 Goya nominations\u00a0for After, Unit 7, Marshland,\u00a0A Perfect Day,\u00a01898, Yuli,\u00a0While At War and Prison 77. In 2014 he received the Jury Prize for best cinematography in the 62 edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival and, in 2015, the\u00a0 Best\u00a0Cinematography Goya award, both for Marshland. &nbsp; In 2021 received the RTVA Career Award and, in 2011 and 2015, the\u00a0CEC Medal, from the Spanish Cinematographic Writers Association for Even the Rain and Marshland, as well as 5 Teo Escamilla Awards for the best technical-artistic contribution, awarded by the Andalusian Cinematographic Writer&#8217;s Association. In Mexico he won the Best Cinematography Award in the Guadalajara 24th International Film Festival for\u00a0Camino and, at New York 2013, the Tribeca Film Festival special mention for the cinematography of Unit 7. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2096,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexcatalan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}