Jesús Manuel Montané

Jesús Manuel Montané (Barcelona, Spain, 1972) is a filmmaker who's always been fascinated by the dialogue between traditional storytelling and new technologies. In 1998 he wrote, produced and directed the short film 2.0 (1998), featuring one of the very first CGI actresses in movie history. It premiered at Malaga's Spanish Film Festival to rave reviews. This work led to many commercial assignments for the likes of Nissan, Sony and Panasonic. Then, in 2008 and after many years in the making, he released the CGI feature length movie for TV Godspeed: One - Secret Legacy (2008), which had its world premiere at Cannes' MIPCOM. In 2011, he made a great leap with the live action film Ushima Next (2011), which features heavy CGI effects and premiered at the Official Section "Noves Visions" of the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival. It stars noted playwright and Nobel nominee Fernando Arrabal, who created the "Panic Movement" together with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, from which the movie took its inspiration. Since then he's been creating, directing and shooting advertising campaigns for BASF, Dolby Laboratories, Nokia and Samsung, among others, and developing the revolutionary transmedia project "The Cabinet of Fear".