Nacho Pajín is a Madrid-based visual artist, writer, and filmmaker. To date, he has worked in over two dozen short films, music videos, and commercials, including his two passion projects Purgatory and Oil and Blood of Canvas, two films he wrote, co-produced, directed, and edited. He also writes narrative fiction and gets involved in the art and design world. After three years of studying filmmaking, he graduated from New York Film Academy, Los Angeles with an honors BFA degree, but filmmaking is by no means the end of his creative interest or output. Nacho was born and raised in Asturias, Spain in 1999, to a family of non-artists. Despite that, he grew up around books, and movies, and spent his early years immersed in creative endeavors, such as drawing or writing stories. His desire to make movies was sparked at an early age, after discovering the work of Tim Burton and falling in love with his magical world. He liked that he had a coherent style, his films were somehow connected by a common language and seemed to take place in the same universe. Repetitive for some, but the fact that he had managed to keep an unconditional audience who would always feel excited about his forthcoming projects, no matter their age, made him look up to him greatly. Over the course of that year, Nacho tackled the craft of filmmaking by shooting twenty-minute remakes of movies he liked, as well as some original stories, using toys and dolls instead of actors. Nevertheless, he quickly outgrew these cheap techniques and, except few sporadic occasions, he left the craft of filmmaking on the side for a couple of years... until he turned eighteen. At that time, he was focusing mostly on writing and painting but felt that wasn't enough. He had tried several artistic disciplines, but still had many stories to tell, and he thought that he had to do that visually. The images seemed clear in his mind, he could see the actors, and the camera angles, feel the pacing, and hear the music. That's when he decided to study an 8-Week Workshop in Filmmaking in Italy, followed by his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Nacho's thesis project Oil and Blood on Canvas, which deals with the theme of the obsessed artist, a common one in his work, was screened at multiple film festivals around Europe and North America. Since then, he has undertaken courses in graphic design, and exhibited his photography in Los Angeles and some of his paintings in London, while publishing prose in magazines. He was also a member of the Youth Jury at the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival in 2022. At the moment, he is studying for a Master's degree in Arts and Artistic Professions at Madrid's Círculo de Bellas Artes, to satiate his interdisciplinary cravings.