Diego Sabanés
Specialty
Script and direction
Education
Image and sound designer from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
International courses with Michel Chion, José Sánchis Sinisterra, Jenaro Talens, Santos Zunzunegui and others
Career path
Screenwriter, director and producer.
He is the author of several short films and the feature film White lies, based on stories by Julio Cortázar (co-produced between Spain and Argentina, with the support of the Rotterdam Festival and awarded at various festivals).
As a screenwriter, he has premiered the documentary series Huesca, beyond a dream (Amazon Prime Video) and Zero, the magazine that brought a country out of the closet (Movistar).
He has taught at EICTV (Cuba), the City of Light (Alicante), the Menéndez Pelayo University (Santander), the UBA (Argentina) and other international schools.
Subjects and workshops
MASTER IN SCRIPT FOR FILM AND TV SERIES
Dialogue Laboratory
DIPLOMA IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Director
Research lines
Filmmakers of the 60s. Narrative structures.
Awards, mentions and recognitions
5 nominations for the Silver Condor Awards and 3 nominations for the Sur Awards for "White Lies"
Award for the Development of Co-Productions between Italy and Argentina awarded by INCAA and Cinecittà-Luce for the script of "White Lies"
Best Actor Award from the Union of Actors and Telemadrid and 5 awards at the Libélula Dorada Festival (Dominican Republic) for "Los invitados siempre vuelven"
Selection of "The guests always come back" and "El chico del tren" for international distribution with the Madrid Short Film Award
Selected in the Residency Program of the Spanish Film Academy for the development of the fiction series "Mediadores", created together with Vicenta Ndongo
Other merits
His projects have received support from institutions such as Hubert Bals (Rotterdam), Talent Campus (Berlin), Cinecittà-Luce (Italy) and Casa de América (Spain).
He has been selected in the Spanish Film Academy's Residency program and in the SGAE Series Creation Laboratory to develop the series Beggars, created together with Vicenta Ndongo, with whom she participated in Iberseries and Conecta Fiction.
In 2022 he published two books and a website together with Jorge Castillejo and María Bardem, as a result of the research carried out with the support of the Film Academy, Juan Antonio Bardem, in his own handwriting (Eight and a half) and Juan Antonio Bardem, out loud (Seminci).
In 2023 he published, together with José Miguel Onaindia, the book Beatriz Guido. Privileged spy (EUDEBA).
In 2025 publishes The liberated image. Notes and strategies for audiovisual creation (EUDEBA), together with Chiqui González and Federico Godfrid.
Your multidisciplinary project memory plantation, created together with artists and residents of Vicálvaro, was selected by an international jury in the Imagina Madrid competition.
Direction of plays lack of appetite y the extravagance by Rafael Spregelbud and revival at the María Guerrero Theater of the latest work by Ana Diosdado, The heaven you have promised me.
Version of The kiss of spider women, by Manuel Puig, directed by Carlota Ferrer.
Jury of the Cinema Jove Festival (Valencia) and the Pro-Imágenes Fund (Colombia), among others.