MARIO FORNIÉS

Mario Fornies is founder of BLUR, production company based in Madrid and Barcelona, specialized in advertising, music videos and content for agencies and brands in Spain and abroad since 2004. During the last 19 years BLUR has produced commercials, music videos, short films, documentaries and internationally recognized films. This led to the creation of Blur Media in 2020.

Among his awards in the field of advertising the 2016 Grand Prix in Cyber stands out and the Film Craft Grand Prix in 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it has also won several gold, silver and bronze awards in the Film categories. Others include festivals such as One Show, British Arrows, AD&D, LÍA, or El Sol, among others. BLUR was named First Production Company in the Cannes Lions 2018 Global Creativity Report, was nominated for Production Company at the Shots Awards, and awarded for Best Production Company at the Épica or Flap Awards. BLUR has worked for bands such as Rolling Stones or Coldplay, and clients such as Balenciaga, Nike, Coca-Cola, Old Spice, etc.

At Blur Media, “Kidnapped” won Best Film and Best Director at the Austin International Film Festival 2010. It has recently produced the feature film “La Mala Familia” directed by BRBR, awarded in numerous labs and festivals and selected in the Official Competition in IFFR, and whose distribution rights have been acquired by Netflix. The company is currently developing several feature and short films.