Ngoor Gayan

Directed by Jan Beltran. 19min 58sec

ENG
After graduating in Advertising and Public Relations and completing two years at the ECIB school in Barcelona, he co-founded a small communication agency with a colleague, focused on social media advertising and creating content for online training. Simultaneously, he ventured into the music video genre, directing various Catalan rumba projects and collaborating with artists like “El cigarrito de después” and “Tropiko.”

In 2021, he decided to redirect his career by traveling to Senegal to film a documentary about emigration. Once there, after recognizing the inconsistencies in his original concept, his debut work, Ngoor Gayan, was born spontaneously. This docufiction short film simultaneously narrates his own story and that of a well-known figure from local popular culture. After a long and tedious post-production process, he delivered an unexpected and unique project, difficult to classify within a single genre, which seems to have defined itself along the way.