Curtas Festival do Imaxinario is pleased to present the first of its honorary awards for its 53rd edition. Paco Plaza, director of major recent Spanish horror hits such as “Rec,” “Veronica,” “Quien a Hierro Kills,” and “La Abuela,” will visit Curtas Festival do Imaxinario 2025 to receive the Master of the Fantastic Award for his invaluable contribution to the fantasy genre.

A graduate in Information Sciences from the ECAM (Madrid Film School), Paco Plaza began his career in the world of short films with titles such as “Tropismos” (1995), “Abuelitos” (1999), and “Puzzles” (2001). In 2002, he directed his first feature film, “El segundo nombre,” for which he won the Silver Mèliés Award for Best European Fantasy Feature Film at the Sitges Film Festival.

In 2004, he shot “Romasanta: The Hunt for the Beast” with Julian Sands and Elsa Pataki, in which he took us to a town in Galicia in 1850 to tell us a story based on Manuel Blanco Romasanta’s story “O Lobishome Galego” (The Galician Werewolf). International acclaim came in 2007, when he began the “[Rec]” saga with Jaume Balagueró in 2007. He then continued with titles such as “Veronica” (2016), “Eye for and Eye” (2019), “Grandma” (2021) or “Sister Death” (2022). His latest work to date is one of the segments of “V/H/S/ Halloween”, the latest installment of the well-known horror saga that will be released this year.