Andrea Zapata Girau

(Vigo, Spain, in 1986)<br><br>In 1991 she starts going to Mayeusis Conservatory where three years later starts her official studies of classical guitar (1994-2004). Soon she discovers in cinema a language able to synthesize many of her interests. That makes her move to Barcelona to study Audiovisual Communication in Pompeu Fabra University. During those years she has as teachers big names of film critic such as Domenec Font or Jordi Balló.<br><br>She starts her professional approach to cinema in 2005 as part of the postproduction team of movies such as Manolete (Menno Meyres) Santos (Nicolás López), El hombre que caminó mirando las estrellas (Carlos Duarte) and Naranjo en Flor (Antonio González-Vigil) inside the postproduction companies Infinia and Evasión Digital (Madrid). She also starts working as a production assistant in projects from the music label <a target="" title="" href="www.casalimon.tv/">Casa Limón</a>.<br><br>Aged 19 she goes to Tampere, Finland, with a 4 months Erasmus grant to study International Media Program at TAMK (University of Applied Sciences). After that, she stays in Finland, gets into the regular film studies and graduates in Postproduction and Image Manipulation.<br>Between 2006 and 2007 she participates in several environmental art projects under the direction of Vesa Toukomaa, in photo exhibitions and directs the short movies “Red” and “Jiskra”, screened in galleries and festivals of Finland, Sweden and Estonia.<br>In 2008 she makes her first solo exhibition in Rajatila Gallery (Tampere) with very good review of Aamulehti (second newspaper in Finland). That year, after a 4 months stay in Cuba, she creates and directs the Cuban Film Festival “<a target="" title="Kuubalaisen elokuvan päivät" href="www.cinek.org">Kuubalaisen elokuvan päivät</a>” that brought to Finland movies, filmmakers and musicians from Cuba. Both Finnish and Cuban press followed the event.<br>She has edited videos for Finnish artists such as Riikka Kuoppala and Hannaleena Hauru, showed in museums like MoMA in New York and Kiasma in Helsinki and in countries like Switzerland, Russia, Japan, UK, Argentina Kazajstan and Indonesia. She has designed projections for theater pieces like Kuningas Ubu (Telakka Teatteri) and Disgracia (RESAD/Círculo de Bellas Artes) both directed by Ana Vázquez de Castro. <br><br>Her next projects are a documentary about the “Co-housing” movement financed by the Danish Cultural Institute and a film about the trumpet and conga player Jerry González.<br>

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