Simone is a 11-year-old, introverted and mysterious girl, product of the separation of her parents and of the conviviality to alone with her alcoholic and depressive mother in a too big house for both. Simone hides an incredible secret that probably could help to recover the fondness and the attention of her mother. The power of the interior world of a child is like the darkest and impregnable of the labyrinths.
Iván was born in Madrid in 1972. He started studying German Philology in 1991 in Valladolid. After attending a course for TV camera operators, he made various short films on video that received numerous awards in different festivals. Iván studied Direction at the Film and TV school in Munich, Germany in 1999. In 2001, he shot his first short film in film format called 'Schneckentraum (El sueño del caracol)' that was pre-selected for the Oscar. His next short film in Munich, 'Simones Labyrinth' received more than fifty international awards and allowed him to do a master in the Universal studios in Hollywood. After some more short films, he participated in an audiovisual project for the exposition 'El Madrid de Alatriste y el siglo de Oro'. He works as director and screenwriter in film and advertising and also has worked as Consultant Content in the international image stock company Framepool. He has won more than 500 International Awards at film festivals around the world, an Academy Award (Oscar) pre-nomination, Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis nomination, GOYA 2018 prenomination and Best European Short Award at the International Fantasy Film Festival of Brussels. He is actually working also in his first feature film in Germany.
"Faces" 2020 / "The Head" (2019) / "Tono menor" (2018) / Broccoli (2018) / "Ainhoa" (2017) / "Fuera de servicio" (2016) / "Die Freundin" (2016) / "Save" (2016) / "Trio Jane's Music of Life" (2015) / "La mirada circular" (2010) / "Die Schöne und der Mörder" (2009) / "La marea" (2008) / "Sorin Dragoi (BvK) Porträt eines Kameramannes" (2007) / "El último viaje del Almirante" (2006) / "La Marea" (2006) / "Schneckentraum (El Sueño del Caracol)" (2001) / "La frontera silenciosa" (1999) / "Descanse en paz" (1998) / "Apretón mortal" (1996) / "Entre nosotros"
Premio Especial del Jurado por ''El laberinto de Simone'', Festival de Málaga (España) 2003 / Mejor Director y Mejor Cortometraje por ''El laberinto de Simone'', L'Alfàs del Pi Film Festival (España) 2003
