Jorge Muriel is a film director, actor, translator and teacher. A two-time Fullbright Fellow, his productions have received three Max Awards, five Actors' Union Awards and three Goya Award nominations (the Spanish Oscar equivalent).
Jorge has been one of the participants selected for this year’s Future Screens: BFI Screenwriting Lab, a film scriptwriting lab for emerging filmmakers, organised by the British Council in association with the British Film Institute and with the support of the Fundación Academia de Cine.
‘The most important thing I took away from the course is the reminder that you must dare to tell the truth about yourself through your stories. The need to dare to tell stories from our point of view, from our voice’, says Jorge Muriel about the film scriptwriting workshop organised by the British Council, which aims to provide emerging filmmakers with the necessary tools and knowledge to enhance their creative process when writing feature films.
Jorge describes this experience as ‘wonderful and transformative’, adding that ‘in this workshop, all the basic and important points every scriptwriter must consider are reviewed intelligently’.
Jorge has not waited to put what he has learned in this training into practice. ‘Just during the course, I was writing a second version of a feature film, and in these months, I have been applying concepts discussed in the workshop’, he says. ‘I have questioned the reason why I was telling that story and not another one frequently, and that has helped me to polish it and make it more honest’, concludes the Spanish film director.
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