Rafel Duran
Director & Video Reporter
Bio
Rafel Duran Torrent
I’m a filmmaker and freelance video journalist based in Barcelona and Berlin, with
Bachelor´s degrees in Audiovisual Communication and Journalism from Pompeu Fabra University of
Barcelona, with a Postgraduate Degree in Screenwriting and Actors Direction. After starting my
professional career in Barcelona in production in film and advertising, I later moved to Miami
in 2004 where I continued working in production for major Spanish media company Grupo Prisa
affiliate Plural Entertainment, which produces content for Univision -the largest
Spanish-language network in the United States-, Telemundo and WSBS-Mega TV. There I also worked
as assistant editor and video editor for docu-realities, magazines and show games. As a
freelancer, I also produced the independent documentary La Gata-The nine lives of a tango singer
(Best US Documentary Award in the Women’s International Film Festival, Miami, USA, 2008).
Afterwards, I worked in postproduction for television magazines, documentaries and
reports produced for different TV channels and for the Argentinian Ministry of Information in
Buenos Aires. I later collaborated with an international human rights NGO in a conflict zone in
Colombia, contributing to the communications department.
I directed, produced and edited the short film documentary Cyborg Foundation, which
won the Grand Jury Prize in the $200,000 GE FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition about
world-changing innovation, awarded at Sundance 2013. The jury included actress Daryl Hannah and
filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Jose Padilha, Joe Berlinger, Floyd Webb and Peter Wintonick. The film
premiered at Sundance Film Festival alongside documentary shorts by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size
Me), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), Lucy Walker (Wasteland) and Albert Maysles (Grey
Gardens). It also screened at Tribeca Film Festival and Doxa Documentary Film Festival in 2013.
I directed the documentary Cyborgs among us (2017), coproduced between Spain and
France with the collaboration of Science & Vie TV (France) SVT (Sweden), NRK (Norway), DR
(Denmark). It has been selected in several international documentary festivals and it has been
broadcasted in more than 20 countries worldwide. I actually freelance as a video reporter and
documentary director.