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Marc Serena (born 1983), is a Spanish filmmaker, journalist and author.[1] 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.[2][3]

Marc Serena
Born	Marc Serena 1983 Manresa, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Director, producer, writer, author
Years active	2007–present

Personal life

He was born in 1983 in Manresa, Spain and currently lives in Barcelona.[4]

Career

In 2011 at the age of 25, he wrote the book Trip to the 25 which had a great success in Asia.[5] It was later released in five languages including Chinese and Korean.[4] In 2014, Serena published Un-African love?, which compiling queer voices from 15 African countries.[6] 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.[7]

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.[5] Meanwhile, in 2009, his blog was awarded by Lonely Planet as the best non-English travel blog.[4]

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	[8]
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

See also

• Belfast Film Festival

References

External links

• Marc Serena at IMDb
• Guests: Marc Serena and Juan Tomás Avila Laurel about THE WRITER OF A COUNTRY WITHOUT BOOKSTORES

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