David Muñoz

Short Biography

Founder and Director of HIBRIDA FILMS (www.hibridafilms.es), a film production company. He writes, directs and produces documentary and fiction films with more than 100 awards and 500 selections in international film festivals. Winner of Goya Award to Best Short Documentary for FLOWERS OF RWANDA, which also won the Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece). His film THE INFINITE JEST was a Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the VII Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival (Qatar). His film ANOTHER NIGHT ON EARTH won the FIPRESCI Award at DOK Leipzig (Germany), the NHK TV Presidential Award (Japan), the Best Feature Documentary Film at Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico) and won the Biznaga de Plata to Best Documentary at the Festival de Cine de Malaga (Spain). His short film ABOUT NDUGU was a World premiere at the 63 Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin and won, among others, the Best Short Film Award at the One Shot Film Festival (Armenia) and the Best Andalusian Short Film Award at Almeria en Corto International Film Festival (Spain). His last short film HIDE AND SEEK was a World Premiere at the 65 Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin and won, among others, the Jury Special Award at Festival de Cine de Malaga (Spain), the Caracola Award to Best Short Documentary at Alcances (Spain) and the Best Direction Award at SEFF Sevilla European Short Film Festival (Spain). His films have been broadcasted in some international TV channels as France TV, TVE, Al Arabiya, Mena TV and LINK TV. He is a documentary film lecturer in some universities in Spain and has been a film jury member in some international film festivals in Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh, USA and Spain. PhD in Financial Economics, DAVID MUÑOZ worked for several years as a financial analyst in a Japanese bank and as a financial policy advisor to Governments. He wrote research articles and worked as a postgraduate professor in Applied Finances. After some years of career as an economist, he decided to jump into his passion of making films.