Martin Pawley(II)

Martin Pawley was born in A Coruña, Galicia, in 1974. Film critic and collaborator of several publications and media (Tempos Novos, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, blog "Acto de primavera", Cahiers du Cinema-España, A Cuarta Parede, Blogs&Docs, Miradas de cine, Xornal de Galicia, Radio Galega, etc). Programmer of film series for different institutions, he was also the programmer of the 'Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema' in A Coruña, a festival of science-related films (2007-2011), and the section dedicated to Galician cinema in Cineuropa Film Festival, in Santiago de Compostela (2010-present). Together with Marcos Pérez, he wrote and directed the scientific documentary short film Ilusiones visuales (2006), with the collaboration of Galician scientists Susana Martínez-Conde and Luis Martínez. He is part, alongside Óliver Laxe and Felipe Lage Coro, of the production company Zeitun Films, responsible for the film Todos vós sodes capitáns (Todos vosotros sois capitanes (2010)) which participated in more than 50 international festivals, including the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2010, where it won the Fipresci award; Arraianos (2012), O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser (2013) and Costa da Morte (2013). He is most proud of the workshops on cinema that he gives every week in the Fórum Metropolitano and Centro Ágora, two public centers for cultural and social purposes in A Coruña.