Chema Rodríguez (filmmaker)


Chema Rodríguez is a Spanish filmmaker and writer.

Travel and creation

Chema Rodríguez has written the books El diente de la ballena and Anochece en Katmandú.
As director and scriptwriter he has contributed multipart documentaries broadcast in TVE, GeoPlaneta and diverse international channels, with series such as Sahel, la frontera herida, El barco de Ulises, La llamada de África, Vivir en el agua or Latidos.

Filmography

In his film career, he is mainly known as director, writer and producer of the full-length documentary Estrellas de la Línea, which took part in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. The film has participated in the official section of diverse festivals around the world: Karlovy Vary, Hot docs-Toronto, Silver Docs-Washington, Montreal, Edinburgh, Warsaw, Hamburg, Chicago, Miami or Tokio.
He repeated at the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2009, with his full-length documentary Coyote: Jury Second Prize, Documenta Madrid 2009; Jury First Prize and Audience Award, LAFF Utrecht 2009, and also awarded at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival 2010.
Director, screenplay writer and producer of the documentary short films Amor callejero and Triste Borracha
He also wrote the screenplay for the feature film La gran final .
Scriptwriter and director of the TV movie Maras and the full-length documentary El Abrazo de los Peces .
Director, scriptwriter and producer of Nightfall in India, a feature fiction film that is an international co-production. Nightfall in India has got the awards for Best Actor and Best Editing at Málaga Film Festival 2014. Also, it was nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Goya Awards 2015. Currently, he is preparing his second feature film, also an international coproduction: Giants don't Exist.