Guillermo Cabot
Synopsis :
A city bus runs through the city. It stops and an Arab couple gets on. He addresses her in a loud, nervous voice. The passengers watch the increasingly heated argument with distrust and concern until one of the passengers decides to intervene: "You, habibi, sit down...".
Director Biography :
Since my childhood I have enthusiastically cultivated my two passions: cinema and music. In a late vocational call, at the age of 44 I threw myself into writing my first feature film script: "El medio hombre que salvó un imperio" which was selected in the Madrid CreaLab programme of 2018 managed by the ECAM and the Consejería de Cultura de la CAM. The script finally resulted in an ambitious miniseries project that was selected for the 2021 CAM development grants for the development of series and was a finalist in January 2022 at the Girona Film Festival for the one-to-one pitch competition with Netflix.
In these 4 short years of filmmaking, I made my debut in the world of short films with the writing and directing of "DeMented", opera prima that accumulates to date a total of 42 selections and 9 awards at national and international festivals and I also directed in early 2021 my second short film "Habibi", whose tour in the festival circuit begins in early 2022 and accumulates to date more than 20 selections and awards.
With the writing of my second short film script: "Desde..." I am selected in June 2021 in the script competition of the Navarra International Film Festival and it is also a finalist in the shortpitch competition of the Skyline Festival of Benidorm in March 2022.