Miguel Herrero Herrero

Sax (Alicante, 1985). Filmmaker, illusionist, writer and teacher. Doctoral student in Psychology, Master in Research in Psychology, Graduate in Psychopedagogy and Diploma in Teaching with the specialty of music. Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has directed, written or produced feature films such as "Arcadeología" by Mario-Paul Martínez, "Operasiones Espesiales" by Paco Soto or "Proyecto USA", and twenty short films, accumulating more than 400 official sections and over a hundred awards. He is the founder and director of the Sax International Film Festival, a qualifier for the Goya Awards, with seventeen editions. He creates Cinestesia, a producer, distributor and publisher. He is the author of more than fourteen books: "Hyperfiction", "Cinema Divas", "Metacine", "Emotion, empathy and cinema", "Quotes about cinema", "Japanese cinema", "Gadgets to excite", "Alucine. Magic, Illusionism and Cinema", "Necromancy and Media Archaeology", "Confined Cinema", "Robertson's Complete Works", "Misterium", etc. His works have been recommended in "Días de Cine", "El sevento vicio", "SER Historia", "Fotogramas", "Caimán Cuadernos de Cine", "Muy Historia", etc. He has participated in television programs such as "Cuarto Milenio", "Bona Vesprada", "Tresors amb història", etc. He performs the shows "Illusionism XIX" and "Fantasmagorías" and exhibits the Gadgets to Illusion exhibition of pre-cinematographic objects from the 18th and 19th centuries from his collection. He is considered one of the leading experts on the origins of cinema and audiovisuals, receiving the Mervyn Heard Award from the British Magic Lantern Society on two occasions. He is currently a collaborator of Cuarto Milenio and director of the feature film "The art of light and shadow."