Born in Spain in 1965, Amado studied law and film direction in Madrid. In 1989, he joined the Spanish EFE news agency as a correspondent, covering different events around the world such as the first Gulf War. He moved into the field of cinema directing a number of documentaries and short feature-films. His first full-length feature film, Nos Miran (2002), was a commercial success and was well received by critics worldwide. Amado is currently considered one of the leading directors of episodic television in Spain. His second feature film, Zig Zag, is in pre-production.

Born in Miami in 1968, Carlos Carcas began working in film production after graduating from Boston University’s College of Communication. He worked for several years for the international press agency Worldwide Television News as a freelance cameraman and news producer in Peru, Haiti, Bosnia, Liberia and Spain. He has collaborated with Spanish director Fernando Trueba on several projects. Among them, Carcas shot and edited Blanco & Negro (2003) which won the Latin Grammy in 2006 for the best long-format music video. He also worked with Trueba on The Miracle of Candeal (2004), winner of the Spanish Academy’s Goya prize for best documentary. In 2008, Carcas released Old Man Bebo, his first full-length documentary, which he wrote, directed and edited. With this work, in the same year he was awarded the prize for best new documentary filmmaker at the Tribeca Film Festival.