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Lucas Figueroa
Lucas Figueroa (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 1978) is an international director established in United States, Argentina and Spain. He is a film director, producer and screenwriter. He has created his career throughout his three decades of commercial and artistic productions in more than 20 countries. He is known for winning more than 500 international awards for his movies, commercials and all types of production. He also holds a Guinness World Records award for the "Most Awarded Short Film in the World" Because There Are Things We Never Forget (2008).

He has produced and directed many short films. In 2011 he shot "Prologue", a film that teaches "The miracle of Wörlg", for many, the first token in the world after the Great Depression of 29 '. In 2013 his first feature film Viral, became the first European branded content featured film with the collaboration of Vodafone, Samsung and Canon, among others. Despido procedente (2017), his latest feature film, is available in over 190 countries through Netflix. Lucas is the founder of Mr. Monkey, a production house which has worked with Universal Studios, Fox, Disney, Paramount, MTV, Nickelodeon, SYFY and History Channel among others. He also has established New Frequency, a production company that focuses on stories of personal development, transformation and consciousness research. Lucas is the creator and owner of 19 commercial brands, including Bollymadrid, the largest Bollywood festival in Europe.

He studied image and sound design in the University of Buenos Aires and graduated in 1999. He left Argentina that year to live in the United States until he finally settled in Madrid, Spain, where he lives with his family and develops a productive career as a film and advertising director. In 2011 his short "Because there are things that are never forgotten" (2008) entered the Guinness Book of Records: as the most winning short film in the world, with 300 awards obtained at festivals as diverse as Tokyo, Berlin, Los Angeles, Malaga, New York, London, Edinburgh and Buenos Aires among other cities. The short film tells the revenge story of four boys who play soccer on the street of an Italian town.

He has published two books, one of which received an honorable mention from the Argentina Ministry of Culture. His book "Marrow" talks about the possibility of creating new coins to replace the current monetary system, based on the cyberpunk movement of the 90s. Also, in 2016 he completed a masters degree in Value investing.

His current active work is called "Renaceres a 8K" (lit. “Rebirths in 8K”) a multidisciplinary project that focuses on landscapes and places isolated by the Covid-19 lockdown, the project reflects on how historical this pandemic has been in affect to our nature as humans and our decisions, while simultaneously opening up prospects of hope and improvement in the future as life and normality start to return. Renaceres is a documentary feature, a series, an exhibition and a literary experiment.