Pablo Riquelme

Pablo Riquelme was born in Orihuela, Alicante, Spain. When he was just a child, he discovered and started following terror "B Movies" and TV films. His first contact with acting was in a school play: "Story of a Cherry", where he was noticed by the director and, nowadays collaborator, Francisco J. Mora García, who cast him for his first film project: "Night of the Monk". Back in those days, Pablo was 11 years old, and it was then when he decided to get behind the cameras too. He used his 6 years old brother and sister as actors, they would be the leads in his first shorts. He made up to ten shorts when, at the age of 15, "Norman's Night" was selected for a film festival. The same year, he starred in the sequel of "Night of the Monk", with a highly successful turnout on its opening night. One year later he directed "Trailers", a short that earned him the public's choice award in the Internacional Young Cinema Festival of Valencia. With no time for rest, after winning his first award, he started writing the script of what has gone on to be his most important project to date: "The Invasion of the Killer Slugs", a tribute to the films that he watched and which captivated him in his childhood. The success that accompanied this short was even bigger. He won the public's choice award once again in the Internacional Young Film Festival of Valencia, was selected for the Internacional Sitges Festival of Terror and Science-Fiction, Bloody Christmas and Fantosfreak, where he was surprised by the reception of the movie and was corroborated by Rafael Dengrá, the Festival director. After all this Pablo starts a Media Studies course at Ciudad de la Luz (Spain), where he's able to reconcile his studies with his work on the radio program of Radio Orihuela Cadena Ser, where every week he judges, reviews and presents the new films coming out at the weekend. It is at this time when he receives the proposal to carry out the cinematic version of an Orihuela legend by excellence: "La Armengola". The production of this film has supposed a greater professional challenge in his cinematic career. A deployment of resources and personnel with a significant budget to be able to recreate the ambiance and staging of a XIIIth Century legend. After getting a Media Studies Degree, Pablo moved to Los Angeles, California, to study film directing in UCLA. In Hollywood, Pablo has directed the promotional videos for the L.A. gigs of the singer and model Josh Beech. His project "Dead Flowers" was distributed in Film Festivals all around the world and it won six awards including best movie, and best screenplay. In 2016 Pablo filmed in Hollywood "Heads Will Roll", starred by the cult film actor Tony Todd. He became the same year a Diplomatic citizen by the Fulbright Commission in San Francisco, CA. Pablo has always been influenced by directors such as Sam Raimi, Robert Zemeckis or Michael Mann. He is a faithful follower of the actor Bruce Campbell, and the knowledge and detailed study of him have had a tremendous effect on him throughout his young career history.