festivals, exhibitions, labs

2026

31st QueerCineMad, Madrid, Spain / Sonora

ASVOFF 18, Paris, France / Sonora

III Residencia de Cine de Extremadura / La Presa (The Dam)

Promercat - Valencia Film Market  / La Presa (The Dam)

Festival de Málaga – zona MAFIZ  / La Presa (The Dam)

Extremadura Film Market / La Presa (The Dam)

2025

III Residencia de Cine de Extremadura / La Presa (The Dam)

III Semana de Cine Extremeño e Iberoamericano / El Manifiesto de Lola (Lola's Manifesto)

Extremadura Film Market / La Presa (The Dam)

2024

Official Selection - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI, Barcelona Fashion Film Festival, Disseny Hub Barcelona, Spain 

72º Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián - Donostia Zinemaldia - Jornadas de industria, RED DE LABORATORIOS #LGTBIQA+ with La Presa (The Dam), Basque Country

6º Laboratorio de Propuestas y Presentación de Proyectos de Ficción with with La Presa (The Dam) - 21º Festival de Cine de Alicante,  Spain

2023

WINNER - QUEER CINE LAB with La Presa (The Dam), Málaga, Spain

WINNER - BEST PITCH AWARD x La Presa (The Dam) at II Festival “Arte Arcoiris”, Fundación CERES, Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, Spain

The Short List Vol 5: Queer Worlds, OUT (short film) at The Cinema in the Power Station, Battersea, London

Official Selection - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI, Fashion Film Festival Milano, Italy

Official Selection - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI, Trans Film Fest Stockholm, Sweden

2022

JURY - Łódź Young Fashion Film Festival at The Academy of Fine Art in Łódź, Poland

Menorca Film Market 2022 - Pitch: La Presa (The Dam)

WINNER - BEST DEBUT FEATURE FILM project in development, Islands of Fiction 2022 x La Presa (The Dam) in Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Official Selection - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI, ASVOFF 14, Paris, France

NOMINEE CANIFFF - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI, Canadian International Fashion Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

WINNER - BEST MUSIC VIDEO - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI - LA FASHION FILM FESTIVAL, Los Angeles and Berlin

B3 Hessen Lab - developing the feature-length project La Presa (The Dam) at B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany

QueerX Music, Film, and Culture Festival, Revry TV (virtual, worldwide)

QUEER ART(ists) NOW x FRINGE! - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI, London, UK

PREMIERE - Juriji Der Klee's XIXI, Official Music video by Gsus Lopez, Sala Equis, Madrid, Spain

Guest at 74th BAFTA Film Awards, London, UK

2021

Screener Short Films - Honorable Mention 'OUT', Hackney, London, UK

Official Selection - THE Wedding Dress at Fashion Films Festival RD - Virtual Edition, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2020

Official Selection - THE Wedding Dress at CANIFFF - Canadian International Fashion Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

Official Selection - THE Wedding Dress at 12th Film 4 Fun International Comedy Short Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania

Official Selection - THE Wedding Dress at ASVOFF Lockdown edition, Paris, France

LAST FRAME CLUB with BARBICAN Centre London, online watch-party: OUT + Thelma

SHORTS ON TAP, short of the day #11: OUT, Lockdown edition online

2019

WINNER - Best Fashion Film - Lola's Manifesto, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK

Best Director Nominee for Lola's Manifesto at International Cinéfashion Film Awards, Los Angeles, USA

35th European Film Festival in Lille, France - Lola's Manifesto

Festival Plasencia en Corto, Spain - OUT

La Cueva en Corto, Zamora, Spain - OUT

Guest Lecturer + Gsus Lopez short films' screening at IES La Vaguada, Zamora, Spain

Athens Fashion Film Festival, Greece - Lola's Manifesto

Guest at 72nd BAFTA Film Awards, London, UK

2018

#5thPitchbox - 'Historia de Madrugada' (Story at Dawn) selected by Filmarket Hub, Madrid, Spain

XIX Certamen de Cine Corto de Salas de los Infantes, Burgos, Spain - OUT

La Cueva en Corto, Zamora, Spain - OUT

WINNER - BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM - Porto Fashion Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal - Lola's Manifesto

WINNER - BEST ACTRESS - Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival 2018, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Lola's Manifesto

WINNER - FOUNDER'S CHOICE AWARD - Los Angeles Fashion Film Festival, California, USA - Lola's Manifesto

WINNER - BEST ACTOR - Bokeh South African International Fashion Film Festival, Cape Town, South Africa - Lola's Manifesto

ASVOFF 10 (Diane Pernet's A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival - Anniversary Edition), Paris, France - Lola's Manifesto

ASVOFF 10 (Diane Pernet's A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival - Anniversary Edition), Rome, Italy - Lola's Manifesto

Panama Fashion Film Festival, Panama - Lola's Manifesto

Fashion Film Festival Istanbul, Turkey - Lola's Manifesto

Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Lola's Manifesto

Spectrum LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Georgetown, Guyana - OUT

Fashion Film RD, Cinemateca Dominicana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Lola's Manifesto

Cefalú Film Festival, Sicily, Italy - OUT

Ciclo de Cortometrajes de Gsus Lopez + colóquio en el Teatro Latorre, Toro, Zamora, Spain

FASH IN BOX - Gran Canaria Moda Cálida, Canary Islands, Spain - Lola's Manifesto

OUT
(followed by a Q&A) screened before Pedro Almodovar's 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' at Cosmic Productions' KINO #5 in Berlin, Germany


2017

Bogotá Short Film Festival - BOGOSHORTS, Colombia - La Berenjena

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK - guest at UAL panel discussion

6th Chaktomuk Short Film Festival, Cambodia - OUT

GEOFILMFESTIVAL and EXPOCINEMA, Salerno, Italy - OUT

FINALIST - 6th Cinephone, International Smartphone Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain - La Berenjena

London Spanish Film Festival, UK - La Berenjena

Fashion Film Festival Milano, Italy

FINALIST - 40th Elche International Independent Film Festival, Spain

Fashion Film RD, Cinemateca Dominicana, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana

'The Short Films of GSUS LOPEZ' at AMOQA - Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Greece

MFFF PRIDE at Madrid Fashion Film Festival / World Pride Madrid, Spain

DRESSING IDEAS IN FILMS (International Group Exhibition), FASHION AND FILMS II, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Spain

WINNER - BEST STYLING IN A FASHION FILM at Canadian International Fashion Film Festival, Calgary, Canada

NOMINATED - BEST EMERGING ARTIST at Canadian International Fashion Film Festival, Calgary, Canada

ASVOFF 9, Paris, France and Sofia, Bulgaria

Festival de Cine y TV Reino de León, Spain - OUT

International Film Festival of Sexual Diversity and Gender, Llamale H at the X Cuban Conference against Homophobia and Transphobia, La Habana, Cuba - OUT

NOMINATED - BEST FASHION and BEST EMERGING TALENT at Mercedes-Benz Bokeh South Africa International Fashion Film Festival 2017, Cape Town, SA - Litost

FINALIST - Buenos Aires International Fashion Film Festival, Argentina - Litost

WINNER 'Best Production Design' and NOMINATED 'Committee's Choice Award' at Screentest UK's National Student Film Festival, University of Greenwich, London, UK  - OUT

Jameson Notodo Filmfest (online) - La Berenjena

Feria de Arte HYBRID, Madrid, Spain

Film Vault Manchester, UK - OUT

2016

NOMINATED - Best Fashion Film at Roma Web Fest, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy - LITOST

NOMINATED - Best Fashion Film at Santiago International Fashion Film Festival, Chile - LITOST

NOMINATED - Best Fashion Film at FASHION FILM FEST ISTANBUL, Turkey - LITOST

SANSE, Cortos en Abierto, San Sebastian de los Reyes, Madrid, Spain - OUT

Special Mention - SICILIA QUEER International Film Festival, Palermo, Italy - OUT

QUEER Film Fest Weiterstadt, Germany - OUT

Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival, Italy - OUT

Festival de Cine de Loja, Granada, Spain - OUT

Ibiza Cinefest, Ibiza, Spain - OUT

XVIII Muestra Internacional de Cortometraje de la Bahía de Pasaia, IKUSKA, Spain - OUT

KineNova International Film Festival Skopje, Macedonia - OUT

International Short Film Festival Kinosmena, Minsk, Belarus - OUT

Toronto Queer West Film Festival, Canada - OUT

Hackney Attic Film Festival, Hackney PictureHouse, London, UK - OUT

23rd OpenEyes Filmfestival, Marburg, Germany - OUT

Berlin Film Society, Cherry Picks June, Berlin, Germany - OUT

Shorts On Tap, European Shorts, London, UK - OUT

OUTFESTPERU, XIII Festival Internacional de Cine Gay Lesbico Trans Bi, en Lima, Peru - OUT

III Festival de Cortometrajes Requena y Acción, Requena (Valencia), Spain - OUT

Vilnius LGBT Festival "Kreivės", Lithuania - OUT

Fashion Film: Narrativa y Moda, SO CATCHY, Sevilla, Spain

34º Festival Cinematografico Internacional de Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay - OUT

International Film Festival of Sexual Diversity and Gender, Llamale H, Montevideo, Uruguay - OUT

Rockland Shorts 2016, Farnsworth Art Museum + The Strand Theatre, Rockland, Maine, USA - OUT

AKS Festival 2016, Pakistan - OUT

Kill Your Television - LGBTQ Short Films 2016, London, UK - OUT

Manchester International Short Film Festival - Kinofilm 13th, UK - OUT

Fashion Cinematic, PictureHouse Central, London

SHOWstudio 1st Fashion Film Award - NOMINEE 


2015

Kyiv International Queer Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine - OUT

London College of Fashion's exhibition ART OF DRESS on tour in New York, Dubai, Shanghai, Florence and London.

Fashion Films: Repercusiones en la industria de la moda - Galería de Arte Contemporáneo de Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

Buenos Aires International Fashion Film Festival, BA, Argentina

Queer As Film, London, UK - OUT

UO Queer Film Festival, Oregon, USA - OUT

Boston LGBT Film Festival, Boston, USA - OUT

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, INDIA - OUT

Alicante International Film Festival, Spain - European Short Film Award NOMINEE - OUT

5th Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, South Africa - OUT

20th North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, USA - OUT

Fil’m Hafizasi (Thematic Night- LGBTI), Istanbul, Turkey - OUT

Meta-Queer Fest Short Film & Animation, Minsk, Belarus - OUT

Shorts On Tap (in collaboration with Brit Es) CORTOMETRAJES, London, UK - OUT

Festival Muestra Ciudad, Zamora, Spain - OUT

Australian International Fashion Film Festival in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane, Australia

QUEER-Streifen Regensburg Film Festival, Germany - OUT

Berlinale Talents 2015 at the 65th Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival


2014

International Queer Film Festival Merlinka, Belgrade, Serbia - Dorothy Slipper Award NOMINEE - OUT

Berlin Fashion Film Festival - Best Emerging Artist NOMINEE

Runway Cinema Gibraltar, MadridFFF Exhibit

Best Of Trans Film Fest Germany World Tour - screened in Manila (Philippines), San Francisco (USA), Hollywood (USA), New Delhi (India), Copenhagen (Denmark), London (UK), and Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

InHouse Film Festival, London, UK

South Fashion Film 36.32 N (MadridFFF Exhibit), Cádiz, Spain

Charleston International Film Festival, Charleston, USA

Charleston Fashion Week - WINNER of the 'Best Fashion Film' Award

Grolsch Film Works Shorts Showcase 2014: 2nd Place, London, UK

ASVOFF Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico

Australian International Fashion Film Festival, Sydney, Australia


2013

Berlin Fashion Film Festival - 'Best Emerging Artist' NOMINEE

Madrid Fashion Film Festival - Best New Talent NOMINEE

Museo del Traje, Berlin Fashion Film Festival 'Best Of', Madrid, Spain

Transgender Film Festival Germany - Winner of the Best Short Film Award

ASVOFF Selection - MoBA Arnhem Mode Biennale, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Raw Talent Group Exhibition at the Hoxton Gallery in London, UK

'I AM DIVINE' Gala Screening at Homotopia Arts Festival, Liverpool, UK

'I Am A Woman Now' screening with April Ashley at the Museum of Liverpool during Homotopia Arts Festival, Liverpool, UK

ASVOFF Milan, Teatro dell'Arte (Triennale di Milano), Milan, Italy

Fashion Philosophy / Fashion Week Poland

2012

WINNER of the Grand Prix for BEST FILM for Ephemeral Nature, ASVOFF Barcelona, CaixaForum Barcelona, Spain

Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Germany

Arte Activa Fest Barcelona, Spain

Se Alquila Proyecto, Madrid, Spain

Fetish Film Festival Germany

London College of Fashion's 'Process' Group Exhibition

VIVID Sydney, Museum of Modern Art Australia