Javier Gómez Serrano, Madrid 1961

He graduated from the prestigious School of Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles where he founded in 1990 elegant mob films. The production company was responsible for his first feature film, Believe in Eve, that traveled through numerous Indie films festivals—American Independent Showcase (Cannes Festival), International Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro), IFP West (Santa Monica California), Leeds International Film Festival, and was awarded with the Silver Award at the Philadelphia International Film Festival in 1992—.

He lived thirteen years in the United States where he worked as a production assistant, loader, camera, editor, sound mixer, photographer, producer and director in film and television. In 1987 he produced a documentary about displaced people in war-torn El Salvador with Ellen Kuras and Kris Kristofferson. He produced public service programming for the State of California (Anti smoke campaign for youths, special operation forces of the LAPD with Silver Pictures), collaborated with National Geographic in a documentary about the Inca treasures of Sipan, in entertainment programs for German TV RTL produced in the US, in music formats and soap pilots for Telemundo and Univisión, music videos for the record label EMI (Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Plácido Domingo, El Puma, Carlos Vives, Ricky Martín, Marta Sánchez, among others.)

Back in Spain in 1996, he started to work as story editor for BRB International in several cartoon series such as David el Gnomo, Supermodels, or Nicolas. Later became Head of TV Development for the newly formed Morena Films, where he coordinated many entertainment and documentaries (Portman, Caballé, Looking for Fidel or Arafat directed by Oliver Stone, etc.)… until he regrouped elegant mob films in 2003 together with Juan Luis de No and Stéphane M. Grueso.

They specialize in the development, production and direction of socially relevant documentaries and TV programming, and count to this date with a catalogue of more than forty hours of programs that have been aired on national and international televisions, shown in theaters and selected in numerous festivals around the world.             

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 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.       

Stéphane M. Grueso, Sevilla 1973

Director, producer, cameraman and editor. He joined as a partner elegant mob films in 2007. His last documentary is Copyright, or the right to copy, coproduced by TVE. He wrote and directed in 2008 the documentary Unit 8 about the prisons in Spain, coproduced by Odisea. In 2007 he wrote and  directed also, 11-M. When the Word Took the Streets, documentary coproduced with laSexta TV, about the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2004. Since 2000, he has been making documentaries, including Stories of the Chapapote, Berlin at War and Between Hurricanesin 2006, on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on rural areas in the state of Louisiana. He worked as producer and ‘TV-director’ in Television Programs like Fuera de Juego (Off side) (14 x 28’) o Los caminos del Agua (The ways of water) (20 x 26’)

During his eight years residence in Berlin (Germany), 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 worked in the production of a dozen reports for Informe Semanal as well as three 45 min. documentary reports for the program, En Portada

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 doing jobs that included producing news and reportages for Spanish and Chilean TV Stations, editing the full-length film The Last Peformance by the Dutch director Edwin Brienen and editing the documentary Gustav's Erben by German producer and director Joanna Gröning.