Spanish journalist and filmmaker presents film at INTEC

SANTO DOMINGO. Renowned Spanish journalist and filmmaker Carles Bosch introduced the students and professors of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) his documentary “Bicycle, spoon, apple”, a work of the year 2011 that deals with the experience of Pasqual Marahgall, former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's and the changes that his life and that of his family experiences in his first two years with the disease.

The feature film, which was presented for the first time at the 2010 San Sebastián International Film Festival, was part of the Official Out of Competition Section and in 2011 it received the award for Best Documentary Film at the XXV edition of the Goya Awards.

The screening was attended by dozens of students from different careers and teachers, who had the opportunity to interact with Bosch in an active question and answer session. In the introductory words, the Vice-Rector for Research and Linking, Indhira De Jesús, valued the presence in the INTEC of the filmmaker who said he marks the beginning of a new stage of collaboration and academic exchanges.

The filmmaker visited the country last December and was invited to INTEC by the vice-rectory of Research and Liaison, through the Office of Permanent Education. 

Bosch was born the 1952 in the city of Barcelona. He studied law at the University of Barcelona, ​​and later graduated from 1975 in journalism at the Official School of Journalists of Barcelona.

He developed part of his career in TV3's reporting program, "30 minuts". His first film documentary, "Balseros", co-directed with Josep Mª Domènech, about the future of Cuban rafters five years after emigrating to the United States, earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary at 2004. In 2007 he directed "Septiembres", his second feature film, already alone.