EL SERENO

Joaquín Mauad Screenwriter / Director / Producer / Workshop Instructor A graduate of the Audiovisual Film Production program at the Escuela de Cine del Uruguay. He completed his studies with a fiction workshop at the Escuela de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba. He has been selected for Puentes Eave (2019), the Organizzazione Internazionale Italo-Americana (2022), and Buenos Aires Talents (2023) – a film discussion forum held in collaboration with Berlinale Talents, Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires, and BAFICI. He served as a short film juror at the film and human rights festival Tenemos que ver (2016), the Ensenada International Film Festival (2022), and the Dodecá Student Film Festival (2023). Co-founder of the production company Anfibia Cine and the acting training studio Horas Cámara. Since 2018, he has been teaching beginner and advanced acting workshops for film. He has also coordinated screenwriting and editing workshops. He has worked on various films and fiction series as a casting director for the production company Cimarrón Cine, including notable projects such as: Barrabrava (Amazon), IOSI 2 (Amazon), En la mira (HBO Max), Amor sin sentido (VIX), and Temas Propios (Original Cimarrón). He is the screenwriter and director of the film Años Luz (2021) and the short films Obnubilante (2015), La casa de Nico (2014), Mi amigo verde (2013), and Malos hábitos (2012). He also co-directed the film El Sereno (2017). His films have been selected for international festivals such as Málaga, Chicago, San Diego, Guadalajara, Havana, Santiago de Chile, Gramado, and Punta del Este. Óscar Estévez Born in Montevideo in December 1968. A screenwriter and director of both fiction and documentary films, for television and cinema. Between 2002 and 2024, he has directed and written 7 fiction series for Uruguay’s open television. In documentary television, among other works, he wrote and directed Héroes de la Comunidad (2010, 2011, 2012) for BYU International channel in the United States, which won two EMMY Rocky Mountain Awards: Best Human Interest Documentary in 2012 and Best Cultural Documentary in 2013. In cinema, he wrote La Casa Muda (2010), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, co-wrote and co-directed El Sereno (2017). In 2021, he released the mockumentary El secreto de Sarah Reyles. In 2022, as co-director and co-writer, he released the documentary film Camino a Casa, which won the Audience Award at the International Human Rights Festival Tenemos que ver that same year. In 2023, as screenwriter and director, he released Amores Pendientes, a film that won the International Comedy Film Festival in Cuenca, Spain, and was selected by Uruguay to represent the country at the 2024 Goya Awards. He was a teacher of on-camera acting at IAM (Instituto de Actuación de Montevideo) and, along with Cecilia Caballero, founded and directs the acting and audiovisual trades school La Escena. He has participated as a juror at the FONA Awards and at the festivals Tenemos que ver and Detour.

Montevideo Audiovisual