Carlos Saura Medrano
Directing
Biography
Carlos Saura Medrano was born on February 11, 1958 in Madrid, Spain. He is an assistant director and producer, known for Los primeros metros (1980), Just Run! (2000) and Carlos Saura et la danse (2003). He is the son of film director Carlos Saura and writer and director Adela Medrano.
Known For

Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the people who have influenced him in his past. They recreate the same situations of yesteryear and Juan acts as the child he was, to relive the memories already forgotten.
Sweet Hours

Salomé's story interpreted by a director and a troupe of flamenco dancers.
Salomé

The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table

Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist Spain.
The Dark Night of the Soul

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance.
Flamenco Flamenco

A documentary covering the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Marathon

Mallorca, 1865. Mr Bearns' funerals, "better to dye thant to mix blood". Juan Mayol, orphan unknow his past and decides to rebuild his family history
Bearn

While three brothers, heirs of a hotel owner, want to restore the glamour of yesteryear to the establishment, a Health Department official tries to find a way to close it down for good.
Palace

13-year-old Milio admires his older brother Luis who belongs to a drug gang in a poor Madrid suburb. But after the death of a friend and gang member, Luis himself only wants to get out of the dealer scene and lead a normal life.
Just Run!

Eight young people have the opportunity to express themselves through film. They had no prior filmmaking experience. Once each project is finished with complete freedom, they stand in front of the camera and explain how they made it, what they learned, how they see the future of cinema, and their own future within the film industry.