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=Victor Perez=

Víctor Raúl Pérez Raya (born February 11th, 1981) is a Spanish Film director, writer and producer.

Perez gained recognition through his earlier work as a visual effects digital compositor when he worked on Hollywood blockbusters such as 127 Hours, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Dark Knight Rises, The Bourne Legacy (film) and Les Misérables (2012 film).

Early Life
Perez was born in Lucena, Córdoba, Spain. He began to develop a keen eye for film when he was just six years old when he started to make stop motion animation films by borrowing a camera from his brother, who is a photographer and an enormous influence in Perez's life. After seeing Star Wars in the cinema when he was a child, he was inspired to explore computer graphics in which he quickly became extremely talented. He obtained his first professional job as a graphic design artist at the young age of just 16 years. With a natural flair for practical skills, Perez took up acting and joined a drama school in his early teens. Perez met his wife while they were both studying at University in Italy. They have one child together.

Acting
While studying performing arts at the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico in Malaga, Spain, he toured the country with the theatre company Lavi E Bel performing the role of Caliban in their production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. He then founded his own theatre company Justice and won several national awards for the company's improvised production Versus. After this, Victor studied commedia dell'arte and rennaissance mask making under Antonio Fava in Italy. His interest in film grew when he received a role in the feature film Summer Rain which was directed by Antonio Banderas. His most recent performance can be seen in the short film Project Kronos, which he also produced.

Visual Effects
Perez spent some time in Maine, USA studying visual effects under Steve Wright. When the devastating 2009 L'Aquila earthquake destroyed both his home and work studio, Perez decided to make the move to London for a fresh start focusing purely on VFX. In London, Perez worked with Union Effects as a compositor and technical director before moving to Cinesite and then on to Double Negative. Victor's cedits as a VFX supervisor and compositor include 127 Hours, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter - for which he was part of the team who won a BAFTA award, Dark Knight Rises and Bourne Legacy. Victor also worked with the Academy Award winning team on Inception. He is a member of the Visual Effects Society and gives master classes worldwide in Nuke, colour theory, VFX and compositing and regularly publishes on Nukepedia.

Film Making
Perez gained an honorary degree (honoris causa) while studying film directing at the International Academy of Image Art and Sciences in L'Aquila, Italy, which was founded by the renowned cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. After several years of success in film working in VFX, he decided to take a step away from VFX in order to turn his focus on directing. He founded the film production company Masked Frame Pictures with Hasraf "HaZ" Dulull where he co-produced the short film Project Kronos which has had an outstanding international response including an offer from 20th Century Fox to produce a feature film based on the short. Perez has written his first short film with screenwriter Norina Mackey and Carlo Liberatore which he will direct himself and will co-produce with Antonio Banderas. Perez is a highly ambitious, focused and driven talent which is evident from his successes to date.