In the System

A woman goes to the unemployment office to apply for benefits. According to the official who attends to her, she doesn’t meet the criteria, so they cannot give her the money she is claiming. What was a mere formality becomes a nightmare, since the woman’s subsistence completely depends on that money and she is not willing to leave without a solution. This puts the official in a situation where she is torn between regarding the woman as just a number, or seeing the woman as a human being in need of her help.

Director, Screenwriter Rubio started his film making studies at TAI (Transforming Arts Institute), a school of fine and performing arts (2005-2006). He attended next CEV (Centro de Estudios del Vídeo), a higher technical filmmaking school where he completed his education in script writing, video editing, production and directing (2006-2008). Upon graduating he started working as a trainee assistant director on different TV and movie shootings in order to gain experience. After these first contacts with the moviemaking environment, he started developing his own career being employed in different projects as, among other roles, casting director, editor and producer. After this continuos learning process Rubio felt the need to start telling his own stories so he started his own production company Easy Cure (2008). Easy Cure soon started operating and creating online content, videoclips, short films, advertising spots and more. Rubio directed “Espiral” (2007), his first short film, when he was still a student at CEV filmmaking school.“Relájese” (2008), Rubio’s second short film and the first produced by Easy Cure was screened and successfully received at many Spanish film festivals: Festival de Cine Medina del Campo, Festival de Cortometrajes de Benalmádena, VII Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Almería en Corto and the Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Elche among others. His next piece of work, “A solas” (2010), was screened with great success at even more festivals than “Relájese” and was awarded with various prizes.