Pablo Casacuberta / Director
Montevideo, 1969
Filmmaker, writer and visual artist.
Master of Arts in Experimental Media. He has been nominated for a Latin Grammy for best video, and has won a Clio. He directed the series “Tu casa es mi casa”, shown on HBO and produced by NBC Universal, filmed in 12 cities in Latin America and hosted by Paulinho Moska.
He has directed three fearture lenght films. Together with Yukihiko Goto, he made an experimental feature film in England (“Another George”). Also a documentary film, “Clemente, los aprendizajes de un maestro”. In 2021 he directed the film “Soñar Robots”.
He has also produced second unit scenes for Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and Terrence Malick. As an author, he published nine fiction books in Uruguay, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Croatia, France and Argentina.
He has won twice the National Prize for Literature awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture of his country, as well as three times the Prize for Unpublished Narrative of the city of Montevideo. In 2007 the “Hay Festival” selected him to be included in the group “Bogotá 39”, a selection of the most promising writers under 40 in Latin America.
As a visual artist, he has exhibited painting and photography in New York, Venice and Montevideo, and has published a book of his photographs and a painting book. He also released an album of primarily orchestral compositions in Uruguay that was nominated for the Graffiti Prize for the best instrumental music album.
A more complete list of his conferences, works and interests can be seen at: http://pablocasacuberta.org.
Matías Paparamborda / Media content
Montevideo, 1981
Audiovisual producer, visual artist and writer.
In 2007 he published his first novel, “The invisible fighter” (HUM). In the following years, he exhibited his paintings in the main art venues of Montevideo, as well as in Arte BA in Buenos Aires, obtaining the Paul Cézanne award in 2016. In the audiovisual field, he worked on projects in many different countries in Latin America and the world, from Brazil to Denmark, England, Pakistan and even in Antarctica, a particular experience that was later translated into both a documentary and a large-format exhibition at the Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo.
He has also participated as an editor in the making of documentary series and television programs, among which the following stand out: “Tu casa es mi casa”, recently premiered on HBO, and “Zoombido” broadcast by Canal Brasil on TV Globo. In recent years, and in the context of his participation in GEN audiovisual projects, he has co-directed “Creamundos” and “Synesthesia”, two educational series, and participated as editor and co-writer of the documentary feature films “Clemente, the learnings from a teacher” (2018), and “Soñar Robots” (2021), both directed by Pablo Casacuberta.
Andrea Arobba / Director
Montevideo, 1969
Choreographer, dancer, director, curator and instructor.
She has devoted the most part of her career to developing of projects and spaces aimed at increasing the visibility of dance, both on stage and in social interactions, training and community building.
After completing her training in classical ballet, she joined for many years the Contradanza company, a group recognized as a foundational reference in the Uruguayan dance scene. She then embarked on a very fertile career as a soloist and director, that has led her to present stage projects of very different scales and formats in Montevideo, New York, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Düsseldorf, Barcelona and Venice. In recent years, some of her performing projects have been strongly linked to science, a shift related to her status as co-director of the GEN Center for Arts and Sciences: the project “Natural History of Beauty” (2013), takes biological concepts as a departure point; then Big Bang (2017), does the same with themes from physics and cosmology, and Sinapsis (2019) is an artistic interpretation of themes from neuroscience.
Laura Gutman / Executive Producer
Montevideo, 1976
Producer and musician.
She took part in the renaissance of the Uruguayan filming industry, working on classic films such as: ”25 Watts” (Rebella-Stoll 2001), “Whisky” (Rebella-Stoll 2004), “Persona non grata” (Krzysztof Zanussi 2005), “A useful life” (Federico Veiroj 2010), “The militant” (Manuel Nieto 2014). In the field of cultural management, she was in charge of the production of the collective exhibition “Ghierra Intendente 2020” and “Continuity of the trees” by the artist Martín Verges Rilla. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as a teaching advisor for the production of curricular short films at the San Antonio de los Baños School (EICTV), in Cuba, and as a production teacher at the Uruguayan Film School (ECU) and in the Bachelor’s Degree in Languages and Audiovisual Media of the IEMBA. Since 2016 she is the executive producer of GEN Center for Arts and Sciences.
Gabriel Bendahan / Media content
Montevideo, 1981
Director and director of photography.
He graduated in Social Communication, specializing in Creative Storytelling. In his role as a photographer and camera operator, he has always focused his attention in the construction of audiovisual stories that can captivate and move audiences. For twenty years he participated in productions both in Uruguay and the world, experimenting with very diverse media, production approaches and filming contexts.
He directed the photography in “Tu casa es mi casa”, a series that captures an artistic and scientific journey through 12 countries in Latin America, produced by NBC Universal and shown on HBO. He has developed numerous musical, journalistic and artistic projects, including “Compartir conocimiento”, a series on scientific exchanges in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.