Javier Fernández Vázquez

 

Javier Fernández Vázquez (Bilbao, 1980) is a filmmaker, anthropologist and visual culture researcher. After having studied Media Studies in the University of the Basque Country, he graduated in Film Direction in the Film School of Madrid. His first short film Señales de Indiferencia / Marks of Indifference, received the award to the best international short film in the Valdivia International Film Festival (Chile).

In 2008, he founded with Luis López Carrasco and Natalia Marín Sancho the experimental and documentary film collective, Los Hijos. Their first feature-length film, Los materiales / The Materials (2010), won the Jean Vigo award to the best direction in Punto de Vista Pamplona International Film Festival 2010 and a special mention in FID Marseille 2010.

Their next feature-length films as well as several shorts and video installations were selected by international film festivals and exhibited in contemporary art centres. Their work has also received special retrospective sections in Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina) or Distrital (Mexico). In 2015, Javier Fernández Vázquez began an academic career in Film Studies and Visual Culture that has led him to research on issues related to history, memory, colonialism, visual culture and object theory. In 2020 he retakes his filmmaking career becoming an executive producer of Luis López Carrasco’s El Año del descubrimiento / The Year of the Discovery and directing is first solo feature-length film Anunciaron tormenta / A storm was coming.