DANIEL DIOSDADO
By Giselle Trujillo
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “Spain”? Manchego Cheese, Paella, Olives and of course Flamenco. Ok, well... here, I want to share another amazing Spanish import directly from Madrid and his name is Daniel Diosdado. Daniel is a writer, director and actor who is not new to the industry, he has been doing this since a young age and achieving some high peaks in industry. This rising star of a director/writer as a very promising career ahead and we hope to be there to witness it.
Daniel Diosdado was born in Madrid, Spain. Since he was a kid he knew that stage arts were his passion. As a little boy he already developed interest for theatre at school and with his friends which whom he used to write and performed their own plays during the early summers.
It was in 1999 when Daniel’s career took a leap forward when he was awarded with one of the bursaries of the European Broadcasting Union to develop his first professional script entitled Nacional IV (Highway IV).
Since then, Daniel worked directing and writing his own material. At first, he made short films, some of them won several awards like Lo siento, chicos, pero no puedo (Sorry, guys, I can’t do it) which received the best actor award at the San Pedro Alcantara Festival and ¿Dónde queréis vivir esta noche? (Where do you want to live tonight?) which won the best short film award at Festival de Cine Los Cielos. Daniel’s last short film, Con cara de gilipollas (Such an asshole face), has become a major hit with international film festivals selections such as III Concurso de Cortos RNE (Spain), 20th Festival de Madrid-PNR (Madrid, Spain), Maipu Cortos (Argentina), La Claqueta (Entre Ríos, Argentina), 1st International Film Festival of Providencia (Santiago, Chile), Corta Corto (Barcelona, Spain) and SGAE en Corto (Spain).
But the real turning point for Daniel as a director was the Award of Excellence at the Indie Fest (La Joya, California, USA) for his experimental film SESIóN (SESSIoN). That was the final turning point that made him start a production company named Nomada Films that has produced El ataque de los Zumbas (The attack of the Zumbas), a great webseries success, and the challenging, risky and innovative short called 3’30″DK.
Daniel taught screen writing at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and, in the last Cannes Film Festival 2012, he conducted an on-set workshop for actors with students of Creative Studios of Atlanta.
He has just finished his new feature titled La Reina de Tapas (Queen of the bar) which premiered in 2013 Malaga’s International Film Festival and it is going to be part at the official selection of Madrid’s Film Festival-PNR 2013.