Gonzalo García-Pelayo
Directing
Biography
Gonzalo García-Pelayo Segovia (Madrid, 25 May 1947) is an entrepreneur Spanish that has been a music producer, presenter, director, broadcaster and that in the nineties jumped is also famous by making large profits in casinos all over the world with the game of roulette, after designing a legal method to win at the roulette tables of the casinos, taking advantage of imperfections in the manufacturing of the tables.
Born: May 25, 1947
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Known For
Aute retrato
A journey through the different creative facets of Luis Eduardo Aute: singer and songwriter, painter, poet, filmmaker. Collaborators and friends tell the life of this total artist and reveal the impact his work has had in the past, has in the present and will have in the future.
The Bewilderment of Chile
A wandering man drifts through La Plata's train station, becoming a lens through which we experience various scenes and moments from the Argentine city's daily life.
María Jiménez: Mi mundo es otro
María Jiménez reviews her life, personal and professional career, reveals some of its issues and her day-to-day life facing lung cancer. María Jiménez has been one of the most popular singers in Spain in the last half century and, at the same time, the protagonist of a tremendous personal story. Multifaceted, rebellious and outspoken, for this documentary the artist surrounds herself with her son and her pets in her house, in Chiclana de La Frontera, to review her life path. Friends, family and confidants of her also provide anecdotes and testimonies about her. María Jiménez openly recounts her biographical milestones, even the most painful ones, such as the loss of her daughter Rocío or the mistreatment of her ex-husband, the actor Pepe Sancho. She also doesn't leave out lung cancer from her. ‘María Jiménez: mi mundo es otro’ offers a much more powerful vision of the singer than the one we had known in recent decades.
Wild Flamenco: Bambino's Story
In his time of greatest splendor, the singer Miguel 'Bambino' Vargas Jiménez (1940-99) was the last frontier of flamenco, an immense musical genre that he developed and brought closer to large audiences: an artist of artists, the idol of the roadside bars, whose inimitable style, scenic magnetism and heartbreaking personality made of his figure a myth, a king without a kingdom, a giant of the popular music of the 20th century.
A la diestra del cielo
Nine Sevilles
"Nueve Sevillas" is a heterodox psycho-geographical profile of the new flamenco in Seville. Nine characters coexist with the great flamenco artists of today.
Love Ravings
In this anthology film, a female actor cheats on her formerly famous husband, a married couple go to extremes, and an antiquarian falls for a young man.
The Urgency of Death
The daughter of the owner of La Plata’s traditional coffee shop “Confitería Ritz” -who worked at Ojeda, Sarti and Santa Lucía pharmacies and now works at Santa Rosa pharmacy- hates living with other people at her home.
Fiel a lo incierto
Nana
Filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Alba Sotorra, and photographers Isabel Muñoz, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Ana Palacios explore their fears and how they affect their creative process, speaking directly to the camera, alone with the viewer.
Filmography
as Himself
as Self
as Self
as Himself
as Himself
as Himself
as Hombre en funeral (segment "Delirio 1")