Miguel López Beraza

Miguel lópez Beraza is an architect, filmmaker and script consultant from Madrid. He studied at DOCNOMADS, a film directing MA based in lisbon, Budapest and Brussels. Miguel completed his education, studying scriptwriting at San Antonio de los Baños Filmschool in Cuba (eICTV).

His films have received national and international awards, including the goya academy award 2015, New Horizons IFF 2017 and Warsaw IFF grand Prix 2022. And his work has been programmed in festivals such as Rotterdam IFFR, DOK leipzig and Sarajevo.

Since 2017, Miguel has combined his film practice with his work as a script consultant and mentor in script development workshops like less is More, Torino Film lab, The Creatives, european Writers Club (le groupe Ouest) and locarno Open Doors. Besides that, he has designed script development programs for the International Coproduction Forum of Madrid and the Netflix-Spanish Film Academy Campus.

Miguel has given lectures and training related to his work, film theory and scriptwriting in places like LENS international film school (Spain) or Woodford Festival (Australia). He works as a script consultant for Locarno Open Doors since 2019. Miguel has also worked as a pitching trainer at the Go Short Film Festival Campus and started collaborating with LIM | Less is More as a tutor for the Boosting Ideas workshops.

His project “Steam and Silver” won the best national script award in Madrid, ‘Ventana de Cine’. Also, his projects participated in multiple development platforms like European Short Pitch and Berlinale Film Station. Miguel is working on “Ponto Final”, a film co-produced between Spain and Portugal by Ringo Media (Winner of best short at Sundance in 2018).