Alejandro Díaz Castaño

FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE GIJÓN (FICX)
ficx.tv

ALEJANDRO DÍAZ CASTAÑO (Spain)

Alejandro Díaz Castaño (Asturias, 1979) has directed the Gijón IFF (FICX) since 2017, for which he had already worked as programmer in 2010 and 2011. He also served as Head of Programming at the Seville European Film Festival from 2012 to 2016. He is a member of FIPRESCI and has collaborated in monthlies such as Caimán (formerly Cahiers du cinéma – Spain) and Rockdelux. After participating in different collective volumes on audiovisuals, in 2015 he published his first solo book, Olvidos vergonzosos (Ed. Maclein y Parker), and in 2024 the second one, Na faltriquera (Impronta Ed.), will be published. In 2016 he wrote and directed the short film Ihesa (The Escape), screened in San Sebastian, Zinebi, BAFICI, Uruguay and Malaga. He has been a jury member at BAFICI, Edinburgh IFF, Vila do Conde, Crossing Europe Linz, Luxembourg City FF and Cinélatino Toulouse.