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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
El Sr. Álvarez ya tiene web
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
To make movies? Why?
You can't hear the laugh because she's a Scream Queen with the mouth full of sponge cake. Right. This is a teaser I made with a shoot from my 2009 shortfilm "Scream Queen". That is the unmistakable mouth of Arantxa Peña, the actress who has done so many films with me, and I like to see this image as a tribute to her.
If I post this clip is because this scene is one of my favourites. Yesterday a person from Fetisch FilmFestival who was talking with me about "Maximum Shame" asked me "what's you intention making movies?" and it made me thinking. I quickly answered that all begins with an image, the desire of shooting and image, and later the rest come to my mind intuitively. Yes, it is true, and it's possible that rest is just an excuse, a wrapping. With no that basic image the whole movie would lose its raison d'etre for me. The fuel that push me to build a movie is not to spread a message, to tell a story, to become rich or famous. Those reasons are collateral incentives. And what kind of nuclear image I need for begin to work?
There are many kinds of it but I notice it is usually somebody doing something. In this case I had an urgent need to get my camera closer to Arantxa's wide open mouth full of sponge cake, so I wrote it in the screenplay. Why? I don't know, but that image is where the whole shortfilm come from. In following posts I promise to try to psychoanalyze me and understand and explain my weird obsessions which push me to make films. Yes, I know, maybe you don't give a damn, but I think it could be funny anyway.
More info about Carlos Atanes films
at www.carlosatanes.com
Monday, March 15, 2010
Hall of Fame: Antonio Albella

Friday, September 11, 2009
The New Spanish Scream Queen is born!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
BadLit reviews “Scream Queen”
Mike Everleth reviews “Scream Queen” for BadLit: “(…) The bulk of the film centers on this procession of the milk to the scream queen. Atanes keeps his camera tight and, in the first half of the film, it rarely veers off of close-ups of the character’s faces, which, most of the time, includes the lawyer’s snarling grimace barking orders in the journalist’s ear. This tightness with the lens combined with the darkness of the theater leads to an impossibly anxious and claustrophobic atmosphere. Like the best of Atanes’ films, Scream Queen creates a solid, concrete groundwork on which he builds his alternate reality. (…)”
Read the whole review HERE.
More info about Carlos Atanes films at
Thursday, March 12, 2009
“SCREAM QUEEN”
(Are you a blogger?… Embed this video! / ¿Tienes un blog?… ¡Incrusta este vídeo!)
(Are you a reviewer?… Review it! / ¿Haces críticas?… ¡Críticalo!)
The Spanish journalist Jose Manuel Serrano Cueto, author of the book “Horrormania”, goes deep into an evil and dangerous underworld for an interview with a legendary “scream queen.”
A shortfilm written, directed and produced by Carlos Atanes (2008).
Cast: Arantxa Peña, José Manuel Serrano Cueto, Antonio Albella, Manel Solàs, Jean-Pierre Kameni.
Original music score by Marc Álvarez.
More info about Carlos Atanes films at
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
“Scream Queen” @ Philadelphia

Sat, Mar 07: That’s will be the International and USA première.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
“Pulque 51″ release in Madrid


Wednesday, February 11, 2009
TELECARTON – “PULQUE 51″
TELECARTON (”TV-CARDBOARD”) is a weird programme produced and directed by Carlos Atanes.
Arantxa Peña announces “PULQUE 51″ release.
More info about Carlos Atanes films at
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Inminente estreno de “PULQUE 51″

Friday, January 23, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
“Scream Queen, el nuevo corto de Carlos Atanes, homenajea al cine de terror”
Belén Domínguez explica la incursión de José Manuel Serrano Cueto en el mundo de la interpretación a través de “SCREAM QUEEN” en el blog de Más Allá de la Ciencia.
“Nuestro colaborador José Manuel Serrano Cueto forma parte del reparto de Scream Queen, el último corto de Carlos Atanes, que está a punto de llegar a las pantallas. Da vida a un crítico de cine que acude a entrevistar a una célebre reina de las películas de terror…”
Seguir leyendo AQUÍ.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Descubre el universo atánico
TE DAMOS LA OPORTUNIDAD DE DESCUBRIR
EL UNIVERSO “ATÁNICO”
Pasión Por el Cine regala tres packs del director Carlos Atanes. Cada lote incluye dos DVD firmados por su autor: el largometraje “PROXIMA” (con el documental “Made in PROXIMA”) y el cortometraje “Scream Queen“. Para participal sólo hay que responder a dos preguntas.
Interesados clicar AQUÍ.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Cueto y Atanes unen sus fuerzas
“EL NUEVO CORTO DE CARLOS ATANES, UN HOMENAJE AL CINE DE TERROR PROTAGONIZADO POR EL ESCRITOR JOSE MANUEL SERRANO CUETO - Carlos Atanes, uno de los escasos representantes de la ciencia-ficción cinematográfica española, autor de numerosos cortos y de los largometrajes FAQ y PROXIMA, premiados en festivales internacionales, acaba de lanzarse a un nuevo proyecto que lleva por título Pulque 51. Se trata de un conjunto de cortometrajes de diferentes directores pero con dos demoninadores comunes: la actriz Arantxa Peña, a la que se quiere convertir en la scream-queen nacional, y los géneros y subgéneros como elección estético-argumental (ciencia-ficción, terror, luchadoras…)..”
Artículo de Angel Luis Sucasas publicado en SciFiWorld.
Leer AQUÍ.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
“PULQUE 51″ : “SCREAM QUEEN”

Comienza el rodaje del proyecto colectivo de cortometrajes “Pulque 51″, protagonizados por la nueva Scream Queen española: Arantxa Peña. Carlos Atanes rueda “Scream Queen” y Víctor Conde “Lesbos Invaders from Outer Space”. Otros cuatro realizadores rodarán sendos cortos en septiembre. “Scream Queen”, escrito y dirigido por Carlos Atanes, está interpretado por José Manuel Serrano Cueto, Antonio Albella, Manuel Solàs, Jean-Pierre Kameni y Arantxa Peña, y se encuentra ahora en fase de montaje.