Miguel López Beraza

Miguel López Beraza, Madrid 1984, begins his academic training studying architecture and photography. Specialised in post-disaster and emergency architecture, he works for years in multiple countries such as Indonesia, Nepal or the Lesser Antilles Islands.

He transitions into cinema, accomplishing a documentary film master’s degree in DOCNOMADS and completing his education at the EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños Film School, Cuba), studying scriptwriting.

His first short film, « Walls », won the 2015 Goya Academy Award and was selected at multiple festivals such as DOK Leipzig, Hamburg, Sarajevo, Seattle, Encounters or DocsDF, winning multiple national and international awards. Miguel has also directed « Jan Peeters » (2015) and « With all our cameras » (2017), selected at festivals such as Rotterdam, IndieLisboa or DocumentaMadrid. In 2017, « With all our cameras » won best film at the T-Mobile New Horizons festival.

Miguel has given lectures and training related to his work, film theory and scriptwriting in places like LENS international film school (Spain) or Woodford Festival (Australia). He works as a script consultant for Locarno Open Doors since 2019. Miguel has also worked as a pitching trainer at the Go Short Film Festival Campus and started collaborating with LIM | Less is More as a tutor for the Boosting Ideas workshops.

His project « Steam and Silver » won the best national script award in Madrid, ‘Ventana de Cine’. Also, his projects participated in multiple development platforms like European Short Pitch and Berlinale Film Station. Miguel is working on « Ponto Final », a film co-produced between Spain and Portugal by Ringo Media (Winner of best short at Sundance in 2018).