Jaime Rosales

Jaime Rosales born 1970 in Barcelona is a Spanish film director screenwriter and film producer He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños EICTV in La Habana and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School AFTRS in Sydney Australia He did several successful short films before his long film debut with Las horas del día that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival In 2007 filmed his second film La soledad His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujirō Ozu he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots He won the Goya Award for Best Director for La soledad film that received the Goya for Best Film too