Diego Sabanés
Specialty
Script and direction
Training
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, researcher.
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
-Directing Actors and Planning II
Research lines
Filmmakers of the 60s. Narrative structures.
Awards, mentions and recognitions
Her fiction series project Mediadores, created together with Vicenta Ndongo, is selected for the Film Academy Residency, the SGAE Series Creation Laboratory, Iberseries Platino and Conecta Ficción.
Award for the Development of Co-productions between Italy and Argentina awarded by INCAA and Cinecittà-Luce for the screenplay of Amores pasajeros.
His short films The Boy on the Train and The Guests Always Return received support from the Community of Madrid and the ICAA and were purchased by Movistar and Telemadrid.
5 nominations for the Silver Condor Awards and 3 nominations for the Sur Awards for Piadosa Lies, in Argentina.
Soleil d'Or award for best short film for ¡Ratas! at the Biarritz festival.
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).
In 2022, he published two books and a website with Jorge Castillejo and María Bardem, as a result of research funded by 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, he published, along with Chiqui González and Federico Godfrid, The liberated image. Notes and strategies for audiovisual creation (EUDEBA).
In 2026, he will publish, along with Mariángeles Fernández, Manuel Antin: writer of images (EUDEBA), which is being presented at BAFICI, and Cortázar-Antin: Journeys from Cinema to Literature (From Centro Editores), which is being presented at the Madrid Book Fair.
Version of The kiss of spider women, by Manuel Puig, directed by Carlota Ferrer at the Bellas Artes Theater.
Script consultant at the Contested Territories documentary project development workshop.
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.
Jury member at the Cinema Jove (Valencia) and Piélagos en corto (Santander) festivals and at the Pro-Images Fund (Colombia), among others.
Conference Cortázar at home: the domestic as a threatening territory, together with Mariángeles Fernández, at La noche de los libros, Casa de América.