Marc Serena
Marc Serena (born 1983), is a Spanish filmmaker, journalist and author. He is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed African documentaries such as Tchindas, Peixos d'aigua dolça and The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores.
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- Name
- Marc Serena
- Born
- 1983?
- Birthplace
- Manresa, Spain
- Occupation
- Director, producer, writer, author
- Nationality
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish · Catalan
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Marc Serena (born 1983), is a Spanish filmmaker, journalist and author. He is most notable as the director of critically acclaimed African documentaries such as Tchindas, Peixos d'aigua dolça and The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores.
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Marc Serena (born 1983) is a film director, journalist and screenwriter, among other activities, of Spanish nationality. The film director was born in Manresa. Languages used include Catalan and Spanish.
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• Name — Marc Serena • Born — 1983? • Birth Name — Marc Serena • Birthplace — Manresa, Spain • Years Active — 2007–present • Occupation — Director, producer, writer, author
Personal life
Personal life
He was born in 1983 in Manresa, Spain and currently lives in Barcelona.
Career
Career
In 2011 at the age of 25, he wrote the book Trip to the 25 which had a great success in Asia. It was later released in five languages including Chinese and Korean. In 2014, Serena published Un-African love?, which compiling queer voices from 15 African countries. Then he directed the web documentary Double Epidemic in 2015. In the same year, Serena wrote and directed the critically acclaimed film Tchindas, co-directed with Pablo García Pérez de Lara. The film later won Outfest's Grand Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. With the success in the film, he made his next film Double Epidemic in the same year. In 2018, he directed the film Peixos d'aigua dolça and then The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores in 2019. Meanwhile, in 2009, his blog was awarded by Lonely Planet as the best non-English travel blog.
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Film — Role — Genre — Ref. • 2007 — En realidad — Writer — TV series documentary • 2008 — Passaport BCN — Writer — TV series • 2012 — Nius — Writer — TV series • 2013 — Valors — Writer — TV movie documentary • 2015 — Tchindas — Director, writer, executive producer — Documentary • 2018 — Peixos d'aigua dolça — Director, writer, executive producer — Documentary • 2019 — Un jour en.. — Producer — TV series documentary • 2019 — The Writer from a Country Without Bookstores — Co-director — Documentary

The Catalan writer and journalist Marc Serena in the 2017 Catalan Book Week in Barcelona.
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- 1.newspanishbooks. Startseite › Autoren › Marc Serena.
- 2.filmstarts. Marc Serena: Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Ausführender Produzent.
- 3.ultimahora. Marc Serena, film director: "In Equatorial Guinea they live a tropical type of Francoism".
- 4.UNAOC. Marc Serena: Author, Journalist and Film-maker.
- 5.African Filmny. Marc Serena: Spain.
- 6.nuvol. This is not African.
- 7.staff. Outfest Announces 2015 Winners. Variety. 19 July 2015.
- 8.Fox, Hayley. Outfest 2015: Tchindas, a fascinating trans doc from Cape Verde gets world premiere. Frontiers Media. 15 July 2015.
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