Machine Man
Roser Corella & Alfonso Moral / Spain / 2011 / 15 min
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About the Director
Alfonso Moral and Roser Corella have collaborated with a number of documentaries for some organizations projects, shooting in Lebanon, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Kenia and Senegal. They combine this joint work with individual work, making photo and video reports for different media, television and press, as Catalan TV, La Vanguardia or Le Monde. “Machine man” is their first auteur documentary.