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DANIEL VERGARA

Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Universidad San Jorge in 2013. In 2019, he founded the production company La Bendita Produce and began his career as a producer with the feature film Armugán: El último acabador (Jo Sol, 2021), which stood out in the Official Section of the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, winning awards for Best Soundtrack and from the Ecumenical Jury. It also won the Julio Verne Award for Best Film at the 2021 Spanish Film Festival of Nantes. He has been recognized with awards for Best Cinematography in several feature films and short films, such as Armugán: El último acabador (Simón Awards, 2022), Marcelino: El mejor payaso del mundo (Simón Awards, 2021), Vera (Pávez Awards, 2020), El color de la sed (Simón Awards, 2018), and Los hombres de verdad no lloran (Fuentes de Ebro Film Festival, 2017). As a camera operator and gimbal operator, he has participated in numerous advertising campaigns and more than a dozen films, including Un amor (Isabel Coixet, 2023), No voy a pedir a nadie que me crea (Fernando Frías, 2023), and Un hombre de acción (Javier Ruiz Caldera, 2022).