Luis Roca 

Luis Roca Arencibia is a film-maker and writer. He graduated in Information sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and did his PhD in Germany and at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has written articles for publications such as, El Pais, La Provincia and El Asombrario/ELDIARIO.ES. He has also published film articles for El Pais Semanal and Herald Tribune.

Luis Roca wrote some texts for the book “Graphiclassic: Moby Dick” (Iperion, 2013) in conjunction with Arturo Perez Reverte, Fernando Savater and Antonio Munoz Molina. He has been member of the Ministry of Culture, working with State funding to the national film industry. Between 1994 and 1996, he was responsible for the audiovisual policy of the Canary Islands Government, organised the first grants for the film sector and the first training workshops in cooperation with the EU. Roca has been area manager and programmer for the Inter-island council of Canary Islands and Las Palmas film festival, for nine years. He won the first scripts prize at the Richard Leacok awards. “A Meager Canary Beach”; the video creation he co-directed with Mariano de Santa Ana represented Spain at the Architectural biannual in Rotterdam.

He has published biographies for Andres Santana (“El vuelo de la cometa”, T&B Editor, 2003) and Francisco Melo Sanso (“El sueño del Monopol” Filmoteca Canaria, 2010). He also worked with Arantxa Aguirre on “Bunuel/Galdos: Vasos comunicantes”, shown at Cervantes Institute, Belgrade, New Delhi and Tel Aviv. He also participated on the canarian short films festival “Cine para una decada”, shown in Wroclaw. Roca is director of the tourist route # SaveMobyDick (2014). He has participated in Forums, written articles about films and tourism which have been edited by the Cesar Manrique Foundation, Centro de la cultura contemporánea (Barcelona) and ULPGC. In 2013, he was the only one attending to a special event in honour to Luis 
Bunuel with a monograph work edited by the Tel Aviv cinemateque.