based on a true story and starring Alain Hernández, Aura Garrido, Ben Temple and Leticia Etala. The film was selected as part of the official Malaga Premiere section at the Malaga Film Festival. It was released in theaters in 2018 by the hand of the distributor Filmax.
ANOMALOUS is his feature film debut. A psychological thriller shot between New York and Barcelona and starring Lluis Homar, Christy Escobar, Edgar Fox, Adria Arjona and Ben Temple.
With his debut film he won the award for best film and best actor (Lluis Homar) at the Marbella Film Festival. It also won first prize at the 13th Talca International Film Festival in Chile. It won the bronze award in the thriller/suspense category at the Worldfest Independent Film Festival in Houston and has participated in the Official Competition Section at Fantaspoa (Brazil).
Anomalous was the only Spanish film that competed and won a nomination at the Soho International Film Festival in NYC. It has also participated in the Macabro Film Festival in Mexico.
With his first novel El Faro de las lágrimas perdidas he was a finalist for the 2010 Minotauro Prize (International Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels of the Planeta group). In 2016 his second novel was released, based on his first film, titled Anómalo.
Hugo will soon premiere “Dime tu nombre”, the new Prime Video horror series he is directing, which is produced by Espotlight in co-production with Skyboundent.
