Huesca Film Festival
Catalogue
37th Edition
2009
HAMINA CHOWDHURY
She is a Film Studies and Screen Practice student at Roehampton University London. During her time at the university, Hamida has developed the skill to critically analyse films as well as directing two of her own. Along with this, she has edited another two films and is currently directing her final project there. Outside of the university, she has directed and edited other films as well as working on scripts.
ERIK FLODSTRAND
Being very interested in film and photo since childhood, Erik started his film studies at Karlstad University 2001. The courses he took mainly focused on film sciences such as film history and analysis, but also gave him the chance to explore some filmmaking. During his studies he involved himself in more and more film projects, did some freelancing work but it wasn’t before he got approved for the Film production school Kulturama in Stockholm 2005 he felt he could devote all his time to filmmaking. The education lasted two years and gave Erik a lot of opportunities to develop his skills as well as pointing out the direction of how to work with film and photography. In 2008 he went to northern Argentina to shoot a documentary about a group of indigenous people, at the same time bringing them moving images of their ancestors shot by a Swedish expedition in the 1920s. It resulted in a unique material of a tribe of people forced to adapt to modern life, which is now in postproduction. Erik is now living in his hometown Gothenburg.
PETROS GKIKAS
Born in Greece in 1980. He grew up in Athens and finished high school there. He studied in the Polytechnic University in the island of Crete and got a degree as an Environmental Engineer. But he had always had a passion for movies. So after the University he took a two year course in Film Directing at AKMI Institute for Vocational Training. In the course of his studies there he decided that this was the path he wanted to take on a professional level. In the second year of his film studies he was offered a job as an assistant DP in a production. He took a break from his studies and took the job. The experience firmly established his belief that cinema was an area he could be happy and creative in. The next year (2008) he worked in a number of film productions and finished his studies. He have also worked in three short films as a DP and he is currently editing a short film that he directed.
BRUNO BENAVENTE
Born in Huesca in 1986, he studied Art Baccalaureate and he presently studies a degree in Artistic Photography at Huesca School of Art. He has completed his training with several courses and seminars related to art and image. He has taken part in several collective exhibitions in Huesca.
DAVID DÍAZ
He is presently studying Photography at Huesca School of Art. He soon took his first steps in art when he was a boy, studying drawing and subsequently painting. He studied at Logroño School of Art where he excelled in Painting and Volume Classroom. In that time he showed several works in sociocultural centres such as that of Ibercaja. Later he discovered the power of moving images and got fascinated by cinema, which became one of his main interests.