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Mary Nelux
Mary Nelux is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Almeria (UAL), a writer and a filmmaker (Website under construction). She has a Bachelor’s Degre...view moreMary Nelux is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Almeria (UAL), a writer and a filmmaker (Website under construction). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Hispanic Philology for which she studied two years in Navarra and three years in Granada. She completed her Doctorate Degree in the UNED (Madrid). Specialized in the field of oral tradition literature, film and education, she has published thirteen research books and several articles and book chapters. She manages the CPIAF center (Centro de Patrimonio Inmaterial) at the UAL, where she is also head of the HUM 863 “education, film and oral culture” research group.
As a writer, she has published a short novel called El misterio de La Tiñosa, which is to be made into a film, and several books of legends including Leyendas que gritan de miedo.
Her facet as a filmmaker began in 2008 as an organizer and head of cinematography courses for different audiovisual departments. In 2016, together with film director Alberto Rodríguez and Canal Sur TV channel director in Córdoba, Mar Arteaga, she directed the first Master’s Degree in Cinematography and Television offered in Andalusia.
As a scriptwriter and audiovisual projects director, Mary Nelux started with some music videos based on some of the tracks in the music album Amor bajo tierra. She also wrote the lyrics for the songs in this album. Her awareness of and commitment to functional diversity due to personal and family reasons, in addition to her passion for the world of legends, led her to start producing, scriptwriting and directing short films. These short films (for which she has won some awards) are focused on raising social awareness of inclusion and, at the same time, on the legends that are such an interesting literary and film field.
She has collaborated as a production assistant in some audiovisual projects and in a full-length film. Besides, she workedas an assistant directorin the full-length film El hilo dorado in July and August 2020. She is now going to direct her first full-length film called Licantropía, which is in pre-production stage, and the full-length film La montaña negra. Mary Nelux has created the film production company CINEMEGAGUAY PRODUCCIONES and is the director of the Festival Internacional Infatil y Juvenil. She is a member of the following Spanish associations: ANCINE (Asociación andaluza de productoras de cine), ASECAN (Asociación de escritoras y escritores cinematográficos de Andalucía) and CIMA (Asociación de Mujeres Cineastas y de Medios Audiovisuales).
She has worked as a background performer in the Black Mirror series (Season 6, episode 4 “Black Mueum”) and in Booking.com advertising.view less