LA CORONA Y LA PEINETA

The Crown and the Ornamental Comb

España. 2006. Color. 12 min. Ficción. 16mm.
  • Film Director: Manuel Gonzalo Alonso-Buenaposada.
  • Scriptwriter: Manuel Gonzalo Alonso-Buenaposada.
  • Producer: Manuel Gonzalo Alonso-Buenaposada.
Inside the successful television show with doubtful ethic 'Tardes con Vero', we'll assist to the election of Miss Valencia of the 21th century... nevertheless, at the end we don't care about who wins, but the strange events that explain...

Manuel Gonzalo Alonso-Buenaposada
Manuel was born in Madrid in 1973. After he graduated in Law in 1996 and spent several years working in Brussels in different jobs, in 1998, he went back to Madrid where he got interested in the fashion, cine and theatre worlds. As designer, he parades during two years with the alternative movement 'Antimoda'. He further collaborated in the shooting of several short films and started to write his own scripts. 'La corona y la peineta', 2005, was his first short film as director. This same year, he was head of production in the short 'Los vegetarianos', directed by Manuel Muuños, in post-production phaze. He's currently writing the script of his first feature film.