Art Director / Set decorator
Vicent Díaz (Gandia, 1973), graduated in Fine Arts at the UPV and finished his degree at Middlessex University (London). He continued his studies with a Master's degree at the Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton, England). After that he travelled to New York for his first audiovisual incursion thanks to the Art Visual 2000 grant from the Generalitat Valenciana, where he did his first production design on the short film Women in a Train, by Jorge Torregrossa, in collaboration with the Tisch School of Art (NYU, U.S.A.). On his return to Spain, this short film won him the Best Art Direction Award at the Alcine Short Film Festival in Alcalá de Henares, an award he won three more times at the same Festival.
After years dedicated to short films and the world of advertising as an art director for clients such as L'Oréal, Mercedes Benz, Loewe, Ikea... and collaborating with the photographer Juan Gatti, for whom he created the set designs for the Zara Home catalogues among other works, he also collaborated with Vanity Fair magazine, signing its covers and editorials for several years.
In 2003 he began his career in the world of feature films with Icíar Bollaín, Te doy mis ojos, and in the same year he began working for El Deseo, with Pedro Almodóvar on La mala educación, subsequently signing five of his films as a set designer.
Since then he has made more than twenty feature films with directors such as Julio Medem, M. Martín Cuenca, Ramón Salazar, Paco León, Esteban Crespo, Roger Gual, Juan Diego Botto... and television series such as TVE's Fugitiva and Manolo Caro's Alguien tiene que morir for Netflix.
Several of his works have been nominated for Goya awards, La piel que habito, Madres Paralelas, Dolor y Gloria (Pedro Almodóvar), Black Beach (Esteban Crespo), as well as international festival awards, winning with Dolor y Gloria, by Pedro Almodóvar, as decorator, the best art direction at the European Film Awards, the European Film Academy.