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He is a journalist and currently serves as the Director of the Documentary Department at 3Cat. Previously, he was the Director of the Transmedia Strategy Area at the CCMA and Director of News Services at TVC. He is the author of around ten books of journalistic essays and the director of two documentaries. He has received several awards throughout his professional career. In 2001, he joined TV3, where he has worked on entertainment programs, such as L'Hora Q, as well as news programs, including all editions of the Telenotícies (news broadcasts), numerous special news broadcasts, and programs such as La nit al dia (with Mònica Terribas) and Àgora (with Xavier Bosch). He has served as an associate professor of communication at the International University of Catalonia and, for five years, as president of the Ramon Barnils Journalists' Group. He is a member of the Catalan Film Academy and the Media Education Platform, which is part of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia.
She is a film director and programmer. Her work takes place in rural and peripheral areas, exploring human and non-human forms of resistance through cinema, in dialogue with other disciplines. Her approach is based on empathy, attentive listening, and a close connection to the land.
Her short films El día que volaron la montaña (nominated for a Gaudí Award) and El bon auguri have been screened at festivals such as IDFA, Sheffield DocFest, and DocumentaMadrid, among others. She is currently developing her first feature film, Cossos al buit. As a programmer, she is a co-founder of the rural film series Les Filmines and a member of the international programming team at DocsBarcelona.
Holding a degree in Finance and Marketing from Bentley College, he began his career as a financial consultant at Arthur Andersen. He later founded Arcadia Motion Pictures, one of the leading independent production companies in the Spanish audiovisual industry. Through this company, he has produced over 40 films and series, garnering 34 Goya Awards, an Oscar nomination, and numerous accolades at both national and international festivals.
For over a decade, he has combined his filmmaking career with involvement in social organisations. As a result of this evolution, he launched Mundo Cero, an initiative that bridges culture, creative work, business, and social action through audiovisual projects, partnerships, gatherings, and awareness-raising campaigns.
He is a mountaineer, high-altitude mountain guide, and public speaker. He is one of the most prominent mountaineers in the country, having completed numerous challenging ascents and climbs that earned him the FEDME Piolet d’Or on two occasions. In 1997, he joined the “Al Filo de lo Imposible” team, which enabled him to take part in expeditions across the globe and pursue his goal of summiting all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks. Latorre achieved this goal in 2017, becoming the first Catalan to do so. As part of the “Al Filo” team, he also worked as a high-altitude cameraman, a role he complemented with training in camera operation and post-production.
She is a director and cinematographer, having trained at the University of Barcelona and the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya.
As a director, she has worked primarily in advertising and documentary filmmaking. Through the production company Smile, she has directed campaigns for brands and institutions such as Aquarius, KitKat, Cupra, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and the Guggenheim Museum.
She directed the documentary Fashion & Words, which was exhibited at CaixaForum, and is currently preparing the documentary Futura: The Type of Today and Tomorrow. She has also served as a second-unit director for the HBO series Pubertat.
She is currently developing the fiction series Segundas Partes with the production company Matèria. Alongside this work, she continues to work as a cinematographer for both film and documentary projects, with credits including Sergio Caballero’s Ancha es Castilla, Je te tiens, and the documentary The Western Archive – Lolo & Sosaku.