Javier Fernández Vázquez is a filmmaker, anthropologist and visual culture researcher. His first short film Señales de Indiferencia / Marks of Indifference (2007) received the award to the best international short film in the Valdivia International Film Festival (Chile). In 2008, together with Luis López Carrasco and Natalia Marín Sancho he founded the experimental and documentary film collective, Los Hijos. Their first feature-length film, Los materiales / The Materials (2010), won the Jean Vigo award to the best direction in Punto de Vista Pamplona International Film Festival 2010 and a special mention in FID Marseille 2010. Their work has been shown by many international film festivals and exhibited in contemporary art centres. In 2015, Javier Fernández Vázquez began an academic career in Film Studies and Visual Culture that has led him to research on issues related to history, memory, colonialism, visual culture and object theory. Anunciaron tormenta / A Storm Was Coming (2020) is his first solo feature-length film.

The Storm Was Coming

In 1904, Ësáasi Eweera, the last native Bubi leader who opposed the Spanish rule at the current island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, was detained by colonial guards and died three days later. By reenacting handwritten reports and letters through voiceovers, taping and studying native oral accounts and identifying historically charged sites, A Storm Was Coming [...]

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