Award-winning director with over twenty years of international experience across commercial, narrative, and documentary productions, Matías Basso has been credited with the BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, Amazon Prime, Arte, and PBS.

After traveling in Africa, Asia, and Europe, making documentaries, Matías Basso took a Master's in Film & TV Production in Edinburgh, where he wrote and directed the fiction short film 'Careless', which won the BBC Talent 2000 Award. His short 'Granada-London' won Best Film, Best Script, and Best Film at the 48h Film Project. He also co-directed the feature film 'Socrates on Trial' (Kanalya Pictures, CA, USA), which won the Artistic Merit Award at the Festival of Hollywood among other recognition. His documentary 'Mosaic' was nominated for the Human Rights Award at the Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival.

He partnered with Al Jazeera to make the documentary 'Dinar Movement', a big success with audiences, and on Amazon Prime. He was a screenwriter at the leading production company, Globo Media in Spain, on 'Paco's Men', a smash hit cop comedy series on the national prime time. His latest documentary, 'Inside IS: Ten Days Inside the Islamic State', was co-produced with Phoenix TV (Germany), TV3 (Spain), and NRK (Norway) and is on Amazon Prime and iTunes. He is developing a feature film and directing commercials internationally.

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Matías Basso

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