Film Programmer, Musician and Author Fran Gayo | Culture

Astorian Fran Gio died in Buenos Aires this Thursday, where he lived, at the age of 55, a victim of cancer. Bonhomi’s strength, enthusiastic expansion engine, Gio’s heritage is not visible, and thousands of people have seen or heard some of the songs of the festivals, cultural centers and shows or some of the songs of Mus, who have seen for three decades. Until the end, his wife, great Argentina filmmaker Milagros Mumant Haller accompanied him (Open doors and windows, Who won In Lokarno in 2011, Y. The idea of ​​the lake) And his son is Ommo.

Geo was born in Gizon in 1970. Bachelor of Spanish lyrics, between 1997 and 2009 he was responsible for programming Gizan/Fixixican International Festival, In the direction stage of Jose Louis Sionfugos, the Gizon competition caused the earthquake by hosting the best ones in the world’s independent cinema in the European film scene, thanks to the smell of its management team and the amount of concerts and events of its programming. On the rimbante route, we have sold it on the European Sunday and this is probably true, when the Sandans still brighten the dangerous cinema path, with a wise and wonderful writer.

He completed his first Asturian platform, in 2010 he went to Buenos Aires to join the BafiC team (International Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires) until 2017. There, Animated BafiCi (between 2012 and 2014), Expressions Animation Festival (between 2010 and 2012) or five editions at the Spanish Spanish Film Show. In turn, he has since 2011, part of the stage’s acquisition group of things Video demand QUBIT.TV. From 2012, and to his death, he was responsible for the film content at The Nimeyer Center in Avilees.

In 2019, he was part of the NFFF Programming Team (International Film Film Festival of Newchatel, Switzerland) and Gif (Geneva International Film Festival) as a consultant to Latin America and Spain. In addition, he is Buenos Aires, Filmoteca de Valencia (IVAC), Transnima Festival (Peru), Cultural Center of Buenos Aires or the National Museum of Fine Arts of Arts of Argentina (IVAC), The Filmoteca de Valensia (IVac) Casses for samples for. For two years, in 2016 and 2017, in an adventure, his eternal excitement was not even with all the rocks filled with his path, he was responsible for the artistic direction of the International Film Festival of Urase (OUFF).

Back to Gizan

In 2020 and last year, he returned to work at the Gizan Festival led by Alejandro Diaz Castano, in 2024, he declined, and he modeled several meetings and press wheels, but Tito left the programming work to Rodriguez. In its first edition, he pushed a luxury pandemic competition for Spanish Cinema. “The trade of the programming, to create a content proposal to be shown to more or less specific audiences, represents a permanent version of a series of commitments and standards. It also represents this effort exercise,” for complex cultural management in these last five years

In the ninety, he was part of another massive cultural movement of Northern Spain, The Zixon Sound, Mus Duo the Mus duo by forming Monica, which was like her generation of partners, chose the closest melodies and letters in the Baby, and they were mainly made in English. So I supported the film Indie, Is inside creativity in music Indi Spanish at the end of the century. Like MUS, after two EP Zuma (1997) Y. Pigaz (1998), got his first album, FAI, Homemade product, cows voice, gay keyboards and electronics and A based on navigation between Folklore Anglo -Saxon descent. In both US and Asia, many albums have been published with their works, their other albums in Spain have been modified: EP Alma (2000), with which MUS settled in a Folklore Melancholic and albums Divine light (2004) Y. Life (2007), his music was full of light on an artistic journey, without leaving the Asterian in his literature. After completing MUS’s adventure, he still thinks of melodies: In 2009 he published an album Next crops.

And on its artistic part tour, the literature is yet to be: After two poems with good critical eco, he started a novel, Christmas wolves (2022), a book that wants to be a terror story The ego is alter The writer’s misfortune. “When I want to realize, my grandmother and her ghost are already in the book. At that time, she began to transform into something else,” he told this newspaper. This novel is based on reality, very difficult, Walkyos de Alzada, Who lived with cattle, with which they climbed into the interior mountains and in the winter they went to Brassas near the coast. “It always keeps me intoxicating my family life before I appear. And in which the Odyssey of the sixties and seventy cities in the sixties and the seventy cities … I believe that classism is not melted. I believe that the class is born there. Brutal Economic Different. When I returned to Jizon, and when I reached my childhood streets, nothing left. That is why I had to write, and it was important and it was not beautiful. I don’t believe in sweet nostalgia exercises. ”

There is something to say about Fran: It is not always cavity, he has always stirred with enthusiasm, which has been infected and hit his communicator. He was passionate about his approach to culture, yes, from great intuition and toughness, he finally understood that there was a spectator. Therefore, next to him, he learned from cinema and life. He reflected in 2022 from him: “Music is the first. Things do not dare in Spain.”