Bridging gaps

Learning is a journey that lasts a lifetime. Falling down and getting back up. We are not all that different even though an ocean lies between us. Sometimes, distances are not measured in kilometres.

Álvaro Pastor has worked in advertising as a director and has written, directed and produced short films, including Los dardos del amor (1998), Uno más, uno menos (2002) co-directed with Antonio Naharro, and Invulnerable (2005), which won awards the Malaga, Krakow and Toronto Film Festivals. This director from Madrid wrote and produced his first feature film with Antonio Naharro, Yo, también (2009), a story about the love, passion and friendship between Daniel (Pablo Pineda), a young, 32 year-old from Seville and the first European with Down syndrome to have graduated from university, and Laura (Lola Dueñas), a co- worker with no apparent disability with whom he falls in love. Yo también was widely successful due in large part to the lead actors, as proven by their respective Silver Shell Awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival. And the success did not end there, because Pastor was nominated for Best New Director at the 24th Goya Awards.