Pedro Collantes
Directing
Biography
Pedro Collantes is a screenwriter, director, editor and producer. He studied cinema and specialized in editing in Madrid and later studied an MA at the Netherlands Film Academy. Since 2018 he’s a member of the OSCARS Academy (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) and of the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 2020. His short films have screened in international film festivals, including IFFR Rotterdam, Chicago Int. Film Festival, Encounters, or Festival des Filmes du Monde de Montréal. His work has received awards at Clermont Ferrand, Festival de Cine Español de Málaga, ALCINE, Palm Springs and Cinespaña-Toulouse, among others. In 2018 he wrote and directed the short film “ATO SAN NEN”, official selection for the CÉSAR 2019 award for best fiction short film. “EL ARTE DE VOLVER” (2020), the first Spanish project selected in the Biennale College Cinema program, is his first feature film as a screenwriter and director. It premiered at the 2020 VENICE Film Festival. As a producer he received a GOYA nomination in 2020 for the animated short MUEDRA, directed by César Díaz. As an editor he has over twenty credits. Some examples are the series 800 Meters (Netflix, 2021) Antidisturbios (Movistar +, 2020), the documentary series The Alcàsser Murders (Netflix, 2019) and Héroes Invisibles (TVE, 2016-2017), or the documentary feature film Shadow World (2016).
Known For

Set in the heart of the Spanish Romani community, the fiction follows police inspector Elena Blanco and her team, as they try to crack the crime case pertaining to the murders of sisters Lara and Susana Macaya, separated by a 7-year gap.
The Gypsy Bride

Inspector Elena Blanco has discovered that her son Lucas is alive, but belongs to the sinister Purple Network, which Vistas told her about before its dramatic denouement. Six months have passed and the inspector hides from her team that her son is among them; Only Mariajo, her faithful confidant, knows the truth. The BAC has been penalized by the outcome of the Macaya case, being transferred to another ship and the only thing they can do is pull on that thread that Vistas left them, a network that is hidden in the depths of the interns.
The Purple Network

A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Riot Police

New interviews and an up-to-date analysis of evidence shed light on the 1992 murders of three girls in Spain and their profound impact on the nation.
The Alcàsser Murders

Dani and his father have arranged a fishing day hoping to cheer him up. The problem is that, sometimes, what is good for one is not good for everyone.
Black Bass

A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.
Shadow World

In 2017, Spain suffered two terrorist attacks perpetrated by young members of its community. How could this happen? This incisive series investigates.
800 Meters

A Woman anxiously awaits a man’s call to feel desired. A Woman and Another Woman- who could be many others, or even the same one—cross paths in the bathroom of a bar that could be like so many others.
The Other Woman

Freely inspired by the life of the actress Sandra Mozarowsky, who died in 1977 when she fell from the terrace of her house in Madrid, the story will focus on the day before the accident, in which loneliness, fear and anguish in the face of a situation desperate mix with his dreams and ambitions.
The Last Night of Sandra M.

Son confesses to his mother, Ana, that he does not feel like a girl; he is a boy. Confused and blocked, Ana will decide to stop in order to observe and understand him and, in the same way, to understand herself. Ana and Son are two sides of the same coin: a mother who does not take care of herself, of her own identity, and a boy in search of his identity with all his strength.
La mitad de Ana

Noemí is a young actress who returns home after 6 years in New York for an audition that could change her career. During the first 24 hours back in Madrid, she has a series of encounters that teach her how to cherish the seasons of life.
The Art of Return

Spain, 1982. Marisa decides to take her daughter to Madrid to find a solution for an unwanted pregnancy. Lucia ends up in Peñagrande, a reformatory for pregnant teenagers. There, she will forge strong friendships with the other girls and discover the awful truth that her still unborn child is to be taken away from her.
Birth

This time, cancer picked the wrong man. Radio DJ Chuck Berger's wife wants to leave him, his boss wants to fire him, and if this wasn't enough – his testicle wants to kill him. After getting diagnosed with testicular cancer, Chuck's afraid he'll be a man without any balls whatsoever. As he bares his soul and makes people laugh on air, his radio show becomes extremely popular.
The Chuck Band Show

In 1980 an extraordinary demonstration hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Sorocaba. Under the military dictatorship, a court had outlawed kisses that undermined public morals. The ruling by Judge Manuel Moralles, which punished such kisses with jail terms, described them this way: “some kisses are libidinous and therefore obscene, like a kiss on the neck, on the private parts, etc., and like the cinematographic kiss in which the labial mucosa come together in an unsophismable expansion of sensuality.” The city responded by becoming one huge kissodrome. Never had people kissed so much. Prohibition sparked desire and many were those who out of simple curiosity wanted a taste of the unsophismable kiss.
kiss-o-drome

While his father lies sick in a hospital room, Albert and his family try to get on with their lives. Their world seems suddenly divided in two: what happens inside the hospital, and the universe outside.
Off Ice

Marisa is a 65-year-old widow living in a small country town in the sole company of her dog Tico. One day she receives and unexpected visit from Hiroshi, and they will share a day that won't be like any other.
Ato San Nen

In this small village in Extremadura, population has been declining since the 1960s, driven away by unemployment. Alberto Martín Menacho returns to this region he knows intimately, and together with local youths, spins stories in a reality suspended between tradition and modernity, human and animal, between a thousand-year-old oak tree and Tinder. A strikingly graceful debut film.
Nights Gone By

Through an acting game, the director's parents become movie stars to talk about the cancer they both overcame and the fear of loss.
Ponto Final

After her parents' divorce, Berta (7) travels with her baby sister and mother to her grandmother's country house for the summer. After lunch, while the adults are napping, her cousin Jorge (15) offers to teach Berta how to ride a bike. Berta is very happy to spend time with him, but doesn't realize he has other intentions.
Lava

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.