Emilio Belmonte

Emilio Belmonte was born in Andalusia, Spain, in 1974. After studying engineering and literature, he moved to France in 1999  where he began to make cultural and social documentaries in  a self-taught way, and years later for French television channels. Since  2016, he has been shooting a trilogy of documentary feature films about Flamenco in the 21st century called ​‘La piedra y el centro’ (The stone and the center). The first film, ​‘IMPULSO’ (with flamenco dance star Rocio Molina) released in theaters in 2018 in France, received great critical and public success, theatrical distribution (still in progress), attendance at Festivals – IDFA 2017 world premiere in competition, Best Spanish-Latin American documentary at Documenta Madrid 2018,  selected at the Avignon Festival and in several international festivals  –, and international sales in Spain, the United States, Japan, Russia,  Switzerland and China. Belmonte’s work focuses on leaving a mark on the  new golden age that flamenco is currently experiencing. He also  questions his own identity through this art with which he has lived  since his childhood in Andalusia and to which he is still very close. ​‘Trance’ is the second film in this trilogy, featuring the mythical flute master Jorge Pardo.

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