Rafa Alberola

Rafa Alberola

Born 1986
Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Biography

In 2011 he graduated from Madrid’s Film School, specialising in Screenwriting. His first short film as a director, Septiembre (September) won the Grand Prize at Festival Alcine and was selected as one of the 10 most relevant short films of 2015 by the Spanish edition of Cahiers du Cinema. He has also written a large number of short films, among which Pueblo by Elena López (Cannes Director’s Fortnight, 2015), Los Galgos (The Greyhounds), Mañana vendrá la bala (Tomorrow, the Bullet) by Gabriel Azorín, the feature films Los Mutantes (The Mutants) by Gabriel Azorín and Una vez fuimos salvajes (When We Were Wild) by Carmen Bellas. He founded the production company Vermut Films alongside fellow writer and director Guillermo Benet and producer Cristina Hergueta.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca

Screenwriter

Movies
2023

In Praise of the Horizon

2020

The Blameless

Documentaries
2016

Los mutantes

Short
2021

It Dawns

2019

Arenal

2018

Los inocentes

2015

Pueblo

 

September

2011

Los galgos

Producer

Movies
2023

In Praise of the Horizon

Short
2019

Arenal

2018

Los inocentes

2015

Pueblo

 

September

Director

Movies
2023

In Praise of the Horizon

Short
2019

Arenal

2015

September

Actor

Short
2015

Pueblo

2011

Los galgos

Cinematographer