Biography

Lluís Galter (born 1983, in Figueres, Spain) is a Catalan film director, and screenwriter. After earning his B.S. in Audiovisual Communications from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2006), Lluís Galter has written and directed several short films, two of them during his stay at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Many of his works have been broadcast and selected for exhibition in a number of European museums. He is currently developing a documentary that will be part of a collective work with other young directors. Caracremada is his first feature film, about Catalan anarchist and anti-Franco fighter Ramón Vila Capdevila. The film premiered at the Orizzonti competitive section of the 67th Venice International Film Festival in September 2010. It was also screened at the 12th Jeonju International Film Festival (South Korea) in May 2011, and will be screened in the 58th San Sebastian International Film Festival(Spain) in September 2011.