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  • GROJO
    Director
    El topo y el hada (The mole and the fairy - short), La gotera (The leak - short), La luna en botella (The moon in a bottle - feature film), Esa habitación del demonio (That devil's room - short), Otaku (short), Calabata and the secret of the tablecloth (short)
  • GROJO
    Writer
    El topo y el hada (The mole and the fairy - short), La gotera (The leak - short), La luna en botella (The moon in a bottle - feature film), Esa habitación del demonio (That devil's room - short), Otaku (short), Calabata and the secret of the tablecloth (short)
  • GROJO
    Producer
    Otaku, Calabata and the secret of the tablecloth, Vigilancia
  • JOSÉ COBRANA
    Key Cast
  • KKIRA ANZIZU
    Key Cast
  • DANIEL GIMÉNEZ QUINTAS
    Key Cast
  • PEPE MEDIAVILLA
    Key Cast
  • RENÉ DUPÉRÉ
    MUSIC
    ALEGRÍA, SALTIMBANCO (Cirque du Soleil), LA LUNA EN BOTELLA (feature film)
  • FERNANDO JORDANA
    DOP
  • MARCELO RENIEBLAS
    ART DIRECTOR
  • ADORACIÓN G. ELIPE
    EDITOR
  • AMÍN ALÍ GAGO
    SOUND
  • ARTEFACTO ESCENOGRAFÍA
    FX
  • ÁNGELA QUINTAS
    COSTUME DESIGNER
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La invitada
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 47 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 3, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • HOUSTON
    United States
    April 28, 2017
    North American Premiere
    Remi Award
  • MADRID
    Spain
    April 27, 2017
    World premiere
  • Redondela
    Spain
    April 28, 2017
Director Biography - GROJO

Grojo has been working for 20 years in films and advertising.
Degree in Information Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Member of the Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España since 1997.
Writer and director of the feature film La luna en botella (The moon in a bottle, 2007); and of the shortfilms Calabata y el secreto del mantel (Calabata and the secret of the tablecloth, 2014), Otaku (2008), Esa habitación del demonio (That Devil’s room, 2001), El topo y el hada (The Mole and the Fairy, 1999 Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festival), and La gotera (The leak, 1996, written and directed with Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo. Nominated to Goya 1997), winners of numerous international awards.
Since 2000 he has directed commercials for the best advertising agencies.
As a scriptwriter, he has developed scripts with COLUMBIA PICTURES SPAIN, FILMAX, C + SCRIPTS, has received grants from ICAA (2007), and Comunidad de Madrid (1999 2010).
He has also participated in the script development workshops of Assotiation Equinoxe, chaired by Jeanne Moreau.
He is the owner of the film production company PROSPEKT MIRA and of the literary publishing house INK ME.

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