Le贸n Siminiani majored in Spanish Literature and Film Direction at Columbia University, New York. Passionate about the possibilities of the audiovisual, he investigated different formats and genres.
Some of his most notable fiction film works include Dos M谩s (Best Drama at the 2002 EMMY Awards for Students and Audience Award at Versi贸n Espa帽ola), Archipi茅lago (Jury Award, Best Screenplay and Audience Award at the Columbia University Film Festival 2003) and Ludoterapia ((Best Short Film at Europa Cinema 2007).
His most notable non-fiction film work includes the series of mini-documentaries Key Concepts From a Modern World. The first four installments of the series: La Oficina (1998), El Permiso (2001) , Digital (2003) and El Tr谩nsito (2009) have won more than 100 international awards.
In addition, Siminiani has explored hybrid formats with pieces such as Zoom (2005) and the series L铆mites (2009), which won the First Award of the Alcala de Henares Film Festival (Alcine 2009) and the First Award of the Ibero-American Short Films Competition Versi贸n Espa帽ola (TVE).
He recently released a short film titled El Premio, which was recently nominated for the 2012 Goya Awards for Best Fiction Short film.
Produced by Avalon P.C., Pantalla Partida and himself, Mapa is his first feature film in which he continues investigating the fertile border between fiction and non-fiction.
