Martin Rosete

Martín Rosete is a Spanish film director and publicist.

Biography

He was born in Madrid in 1980, the oldest of the Rosete brothers. He studied audiovisual communication at the University of Alcalá in Madrid and directing at the renowned Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. He was invited for the first time to the Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003.

Martin wrote, directed and produced his first 35mm short film "Revolución" at the age of 21 with the support of the Instituto de las Ciencias y las Artes Audiovisuales, the Madrid community and Canal+. Revolución is based on a short story by Slawomir Mrozek and features Miguel Rellán in the lead role. It won more than 50 prizes internationally and Martin managed to obtain distribution contracts with Canal+ Spain, Canal+ International, TVE International, TV3, Apollo Cinemas, Karma Films and FNAC.

It was co-produced by the well-known Basque producer Koldo Zuazua, who has led production for well know cineasts such as Julio Medem or Luiso Berdejo. Koldo Zuazua also produced the second 35mm short film by Martín Rosete, A falta de pan with the support of RedBull, the community of Madrid and Castille-La Mancha. A falta de pan features actors such as Álex Angle, Carlos Alvarez-Nóvoa and Amparo Beached and has won 9 international film prizes and was broadcast by Channel+ and FNAC and has been distributed on France and Japan.

After producing various advertisements, corporate videos and short films with his brother José, Martín travelled to New York on a full grant by the Fundación La Caixa to do a two year masters degree at the New York Film Academy.^[1]

As a result of those two years at the Academy, Martín has directed the short films Paper or Plastic for Charvick Productions and most recently Basket Bronx, broadcast on 11 February 2009 by Canal+ to compete for the Canal+ short film prize. Basket Bronx has been submitted to more than a 100 film festivals all over the world and has been officially selected at various festivals in Spain, France, India and Chile.

Fulgorafilms has now contracted Martín to produce his first feature film in the United States. Production started in October 2008 in New York and has a preliminary budget of $6 million.^[2]

References

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External Links

• ABC Spain
• Madrid.org

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