Carlos Prado Pampín (Marín, 1982) is a Spanish filmmaker and journalist.[1] He directed and produced the short film Vellas, about old-age LGBT love.[2] He has also been a reporter and television director for the Spanish nationwide broadcast television station laSexta. In 2016 he won the 3rd Befesa Award of Environmental Journalism.[3]

Carlos Prado Pampín
Born1982 (age 41–42)
NationalitySpanish
Alma materUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela
Notable workVellas (2010)

Early life

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Carlos Prado Pampín was born in Marín, Pontevedra, in 1982. At the age of 15 he started recording his own domestic films. At the age of 18 he starts audiovisual studies in Vigo, and shortly after he starts his studies of journalism at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.[4]

Filmography

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  • Vellas (2010). Fiction short on LGBT love between two elderly women. Runner-up for the Mestre Mateo Awards 2008.[5]
  • A mano o a máquina (2015). Short that became a success online and was candidate to the audience award at the Spanish online short film festival Notodofilmfest.[6]
  • Homes de xeo: galegos na Antártida (2017). Documentary shot on the South Pole while on board the BIO Hesperides, a Spanish polar research vessel.[7]
  • Devolvendo o golpe (2021). Documentary about the life of Spanish boxer Aaron Gonzalez "Thunder", who at age 10 almost got killed by a car, and the fight of his mother Rosa for him to get ahead and fulfill his dream of becoming a Spanish boxing champion.[8][9][10]

References

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  1. ^ "Carlos Prado Pampín". IMDb. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Vellas (2010)". IMDb. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  3. ^ "El reportero de La Sexta Noticias Carlos Prado gana el III Premio Befesa de Periodismo Medioambiental". La Vanguardia. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  4. ^ "FESCIGU 2010: Cine que entiende". Festival de Cine Solidario de Guadalajara. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  5. ^ "El periodista Carlos Prado presentó en Marín su documental "Homes de xeo: galegos na Antártida"". Faro de Vigo. 29 October 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. ^ "¿A mano o a máquina?, el corto rodado en O Morrazo que triunfa en la Red". Faro de Vigo. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  7. ^ "El periodista Carlos Prado presentó en Marín su documental "Homes de xeo: galegos na Antártida"". Faro de Vigo. 29 October 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Devolvendo o golpe". Trece Amarillo. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  9. ^ M., A. (24 July 2021). "Historia de superación y éxito: El Cine Seixo acogió este viernes el preestreno del documental sobre la vida del boxeador tricampeón de España Aarón González". Diario de Pontevedra. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Devolvendo o golpe (2022)". Filmaffinity. Retrieved 7 October 2022.