Adrian Replanski

Director

BIOGRAPHIE

Born in Argentina, Adrian Replanski studied and received a film degree at Canada’s Vancouver Film School. His 10-minute student documentary on a Soviet submarine turned tourist attraction in a Canadian port-city earned him a post-production award and was screened at the Seattle Film Festival. In 1999, he secured a film-related internship in Cuba, where he worked as a camera assistant in Juan Carlos Tabío's "Lista de Espera" ("Waiting List") and directed a short, experimental film titled "The Plumber". In 2007, he wrote and directed "Fábrica de humo" ("The Smoke Factory"), his first feature film. The film has been shown at several international festivals, such as the 14e Rendezvous du Cinema Québécois et Francophone (Canada), the Festival Internacional del Cine Pobre (Cuba) and the Heart of England International Film Festival (England), where it was nominated as Best Foreign First Feature. In 2009, he participated at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) with his short film "Decathexis", an experimental piece with which he also took part in the first Guadalajara Talent Campus, a film workshop sponsored by the Berlinale Talent Campus. From 2008 and until his return to Canada, he became involved in a broad variety of film-related projects, including the design of video-backdrops for DJ performances at music festivals, camera and editing jobs for journalists covering film festival events, and the production of and street photography for a US documentary feature. His 2010 animated short, "New Clocks for the Wasted Hours", won several awards at Cuba’s 10th Emerging Filmmakers’ Festival and was selected for the official competition at the International New Latin American Film Festival in 2010. Following the completion a 30-minute dramatic short ("Portrait of the Shipwreck"), he shot "The Zone", a re-imagining of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker set in an abandoned industrial area in Cuba. In 2020, his sci-fi short "Cargo B" earned him the first prize in the Mallorca Evolution International Film Festival's 48-Hour Film Competition and a production grant from Palma Pictures. His previous science fiction short, Iskra — winner of the third-prize at Kazan’s Film 7 Days competition— has been screened at numerous prestigious international festivals, including Estonia’s Oscar-qualifying Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF Shorts Section).

FILMOGRAPHIE