Curro Sánchez Varela graduated in 2008 in Audiovisual Communication at San Pablo CEU University. In 2009 he moved to New York to study film directing at the NYFA. On his return from New York, he founded the production company Ziggurat Films with his sister Lucía Sánchez. Together they produce advertising, music videos and documentaries, and it was with this company that the documentary Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda (Paco de Lucía: The Search) was produced. The biographical documentary about his father premiered in San Sebastian and won the Goya Award for Best Documentary Film. His second feature documentary Malu: Ni Un Paso Atrás was premiered in Málaga. In 2018 he worked as a producer on the documentary Camarón: Flamenco y Revolución. In 2020 he directed 4 chapters of the documentary series It ́s Flamenco and the biographical documentary of the bullfighter Curro Romero: Maestro del Tiempo.
Festival de Cine de Sevilla
