Ignacio Martín Lerma

Ignacio Martín Lerma is a History graduate, a practicing archaeologist and teacher at the University of Murcia's Prehistory Department. He has also studied movie direction and filming. This has led him to combine his professional activity, archaeology, with the audiovisual world, directing different documentaries related to his investigating area. In the field of fiction, he has signed as scriptwriter and film maker the short films "Oscuro Silencio" (2001), "Rol" (2002), "Mosquicidio" (2005), "Frío" (2006), "Invierno" (2008), "Días extraños" (2009) and as co-director together with Manuel Marín, "Merry Little Christmas" (Luna de Ítaca, 2010). This work has over forty selections - more than fifteen of them are international - and different awards: "First Award, Zaragoza Film Festival" or "Jury award, Malaga Spanish Film Festival". "Merry Little Christmas" was shortlisted for the Goya Awards 2012. Nowadays, he presents his last work, with Javier Arellano, entitled "Lluvia" (2013). Likewise, he has also directed many musical video clips for artists like Road Ramos, Marwan, Alarmantiks (co-directed works with Miguel Larraya), Alis, Funambulista, SonidoTravel or the duets of Germán Meoro and Diego Martin or that of Muerdo and Luis Eduardo Aute. He keeps a close relationship with fantastic cinema through the different massive events in which he has taken part as jury, organizer and coordinator. One of the highlights is the acclaimed performance "Halloween Night", developed at the Regional Film Library of Murcia. In this performance the spectator lives the projection in the first person. It has been played to full house audience in all its editions.