emf's crew is formed by the following partners and collaborators:
-> Javier Gómez Serrano
-> Juan Luis de No
-> Stéphane M. Grueso
-> Mohatar Marzok
Javier Gómez Serrano, Madrid 1961
Javier was born in Madrid, Spain in 1961. He attended several Catholic schools until entering the Spanish Air Force (four years) as an assistant mechanic by mistake in 1980. He enrolled in the University Complutense of Madrid (Image Sciences) and travelled extensively throughout Spain and U.S.A. In 1984 he moved to Ohio and finally Los Angeles, where he worked in factories and at many other odd-jobs. He started working as a production assistant for some video production companies , and later did work as a cameraman and editor. In 1987 he produced a documentary about the displaced population in El Salvador, and became involved with the homeless theater group LAPD (Los Angeles Poverty Department) for which he did video and photographic work. In 1988 he joined READ magazine, a visual gazette voicing the laughs of despair of the Intra-realist movement. There he started a collaboration with writer Stephen Siciliano http://highwayscribery.blogspot.com/ . Serrano graduated from UCLA's Film School in 1990, and together with José Vergara and Juan Carlos Ferro, founded Elegant Mob Films, the production company behind “Believe in Eve”. In 1996 he moved to Spain and together with Juan Luis de No cotinued elegant mob's documentary production work. A habitual day-dreamer, he has been trying to frighten away everyday's stupidity, while living a normal life. Javier now resides in Madrid and has four kids, Román, Mayahuel, Cala and Greta.
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Juan Luis de No, Madrid 1966
Producer, screenwriter and editor. He has just participated in the production of 11-M When the Word Took the Streets , a documentary of which he was co-screenwriter. In 2006, he produced A Sea in Between , shown on the Odyssey channel, which specializes in documentaries. At the beginning of 2005, he finished Looking for Hackers , a documentary about the moral challenges brought by the digital revolution. In 2004, he finished City of Wait , shown on the Odyssey channel and recently acquired by TVE Internacional. This documentary, ethnographic in nature, was the recipient of a Special Mention at the ESPIELLO 2004 International Ethnographic Documentary Festival, the only Spanish competition devoted to anthropological cinema. This work, focusing on the city of Alhucemas in the Moroccan Rif, served as a precursor to the preparation of other projects related to North Africa like Kif , a documentary that will analyze the situation and consequences of the cannabis crop in northern Morocco and One Hundred Yards Away , a documentary that shows the situation of the border fence at Melilla, the southern border of Europe that today is more fortified than ever. These projects are currently in preproduction and are a sign of the knowledge about this territory that the elegant mob films production company, of which he is a founding member, has acquired over the last few years.
In 2003 and after more than 7 months working in collaboration with the Granada production company, Alcazaba Documental, he finished Sierra Nevada, Island of Biodiversity, the first educational documentary made about the Sierra Nevada National Park since its official recognition as such. He was responsible for the photography in the documentary Letter from Valencia for UNESCO and did a series of historical documentary pieces on elite athletes for the International Olympic Committee.
In 1999, he made the documentary The Fame Market for the program, Documentos TV (TVE), a documentary that had a record audience for this program when it aired.
He has worked as a producer and director of photography for several Canal Satélite Digital TV channels and for Canal + on several special cultural programs. He has participated in a raft of short films, institutional, educational and industrial videos and TV programs as a camera operator, director of photography and producer.
More than four years have passed since he came into contact with the Amazigh culture in Morocco. This has led to several projects related to this culture that he has been developing since then, combining these jobs with other assignments and his own projects, largely documentary in nature.
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Stéphane M. Grueso, Sevilla 1973
Producer, cameraman and editor. He joined as a partner elegant mob films in 2007. He has just finished producing and editing the documentary, 3-11. When the Word Took the Streets aired on La Sexta TV channel, about the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2004, of which he was co-screenwriter. Since 2000, he has been making documentaries, including Stories of the Chapapote in 2003, Berlin at War in 2003 and Between Hurricanes in 2006, on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on rural areas in the state of Louisiana, which was almost destroyed by the storm in the summer of 2005.
During his stay in Berlin, between 1999 and 2007, he worked in the correspondent's office for TVE - Televisión Española in Germany as a cameraman and editor. During this two-year period, in addition to working on news production for TVE, he produced a dozen reports for Informe Semenal as well as three documentary reports for the program, “En Portada”, entitled, 10 Years of German Reunification, The Cubs of Nazism and With the Euro in your Pocket .
After his time with TVE, he did a two-year course specializing in digital editing which earned him the official German title of Film and Video Editor. After his studies, he began working in Berlin as a freelance producer, cameraman and editor with jobs that included editing the full-length film The Last Peformance by the Dutch director Edwin Brienen and editing the documentary Gustav's Erben by German producer Joanna Gröning.
Before moving to Germany, he worked in Madrid between 1993 and 1999 in different companies and as a freelancer in film and television, where he performed different tasks including cameraman, electrician and worked on directing and producing teams. He also studied Cinematographic Direction and Film and Television Lighting, also attending monographic courses on Directing Documentaries, Scenic Lighting and Sound.
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Mohatar Marzok
Doctor in Anthropology from the University of Granada and L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (France). He received his doctorate in 2006 after finishing his undergraduate studies in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Granada in 1998. He also holds the Diplôme d'Études Approfondies en Anthropologie Sociale et Ethnologie, granted in Paris in 2001 from the L'École des hautes études en sciences socials, under the direction of Tassadit Yacine.
Since 2002, he has collaborated with the production company, elegant mob films, which he has advised on ethnographic and anthropological issues relating to Morocco and with whom he has collaborated on numerous research projects, including among others, the documentary City of Wait and the project One Hundred Yards Away .
During his studies he participated in numerous research projects, which include:
• “ L'action collective à l'echelle locale au Maghreb,” a three-year project, directed by Alain Mahe and produced for L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales and other public bodies in France, Belgium and Morocco.
• “ Estudio socio antropológico sobre las élites de Fez ," made with the Observatorio de Prospectiva Cultural (HUM584), Group of the Junta de Andalucía , under the direction of Professor González Alcantud.
His presentations include:
• “La cooperación al desarrollo de Andalucía en Marruecos”, at the 15 th Andalusia Ethnology Workshop. Heritage and legislation: New criteria, new contents, held in Seville, October 2006.
• “La gestion politique d'un seisme: Al-Hoceima février 2004”, at the Action collective à échelle Local au Maghreb in Paris in 2005.
• “ Una antropología de la interdependencia. La cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo en el Mediterráneo ” at the 4 th conference on immigration in Spain. Citizenship and Participation in Gerona, 2004.
His publications include the books: ”De la contestation à la représentation”. Collection Intérieur du Maghreb. Edición Bouchenne and “La transmisión”, in Gonzalez Alcantud, Cultura y/o Modernidad. Memoria de una pasión truncada. Colección Andalucía Plural, 2006. emf crew [pdf - 76K] not yet! top
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