MARC RECHA. He was born in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) in 1970. From 1984 to 1988 he filmed 14 super-8mm. short films. In 1989 he was given a grant by the Culture Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and lives in Paris working with the film director, Marcel Hanoun.

He has made several short films; among them: “Es tard” (1994) and “L’escampavies” (1998), for which he won different national and international awards. As a feature-length film director he has made four films: “El cielo sube”(1991) (Prize Ciudat de Barcelona 1922, selected in the festivals of Locarno and Venice), “L’arbre de les cireres” (1998) (Prize FIPRESCI in the Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno, 1998), “Pau y el Seu germà” (2000) (Selected in Cannes Festival, 2001 y Prize Ondas 2001 to Best Spanish Director) y “Las manos vacías” (2003) (Selected in Cannes Festival, 2003).