festivals, screenings, exhibitions and labs

2024

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, The Cinema in the Power Station, Battersea, London

Fashion Film Festival Milano, Italy

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

ASVOFF 14, Paris, France

NOMINEE CANIFFF - 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 'THE DAM' (LA PRESA) 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! - Group Exhibition, London, UK

'XIXI'' - Juriji Der Klee, Official Music video by Gsus Lopez, Sala Equis, Madrid, Spain (Premiere)

DISSIDENT HOUSE - ongoing creative development lab with the feature-length project 'THE DAM (LA PRESA)'

Guest at 74th BAFTA Film Awards, London, UK

2021

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

Fashion Films Festival RD - Virtual Edition, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2020

CANIFFF - Canadian International Fashion Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

12th Film 4 Fun International Comedy Short Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania

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 at Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK

NOMINEE 'BEST DIRECTOR' - INTERNATIONAL CINÉFASHION FILM AWARDS, Los Angeles, USA

35th European Film Festival in Lille, France

Festival Plasencia en Corto, Spain

La Cueva en Corto, Zamora, Spain

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

Athens Fashion Film Festival, Greece

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

La Cueva en Corto, Zamora, Spain

WINNER - BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM - Porto Fashion Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal

WINNER - BEST ACTRESS - Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival 2018, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

WINNER - BEST ACTOR - Bokeh South African International Fashion Film Festival, Cape Town, South Africa

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

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

Panama Fashion Film Festival, Panama

Fashion Film Festival Istanbul, Turkey

Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Spectrum LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Georgetown, Guyana 

Fashion Film RD, Cinemateca Dominicana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 

Cefalú Film Festival, Sicily, Italy 

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

FASH IN BOX - Gran Canaria Moda Cálida, Canary Islands, Spain

21 Festival de Cine Español de Málaga (with my debut feature film in development)

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

68th BERLINALE - Berlin International Film Festival
(participating in the European Film Market with my debut feature film in development)

2017

Bogotá Short Film Festival - BOGOSHORTS, Colombia

Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK

6th Chaktomuk Short Film Festival, Cambodia

GEOFILMFESTIVAL and EXPOCINEMA, Salerno, Italy

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

London Spanish Film Festival, UK

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

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

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

FINALIST - Buenos Aires International Fashion Film Festival, Argentina

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

Jameson Notodo Filmfest (online)

Feria de Arte HYBRID, Madrid, Spain

Film Vault Manchester, UK

2016

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

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

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

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

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

QUEER Film Fest Weiterstadt, Germany 

Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival, Italy 

Festival de Cine de Loja, Granada, Spain 

Ibiza Cinefest, Ibiza, Spain 

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

KineNova International Film Festival Skopje, Macedonia

International Short Film Festival Kinosmena, Minsk, Belarus

Toronto Queer West Film Festival, Canada

Hackney Attic Film Festival, Hackney PictureHouse, London, UK

23rd OpenEyes Filmfestival, Marburg, Germany

Berlin Film Society, Cherry Picks June, Berlin, Germany

Shorts On Tap, European Shorts, London, UK

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

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

Vilnius LGBT Festival "Kreivės", Lithuania

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

34º Festival Cinematografico Internacional de Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay

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

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

AKS Festival 2016, Pakistan

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

Manchester International Short Film Festival - Kinofilm 13th, UK

Fashion Cinematic, PictureHouse Central, London

SHOWstudio 1st Fashion Film Award - NOMINEE


2015

Kyiv International Queer Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine

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

UO Queer Film Festival, Oregon, USA

Boston LGBT Film Festival, Boston, USA

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, INDIA

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

5th Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, South Africa

20th North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, USA

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

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

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

Festival Muestra Ciudad, Zamora, Spain

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

QUEER-Streifen Regensburg Film Festival, Germany

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


2014

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

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

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

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