Celebrity Biographies
Gustavo Ron
There are film directors who little by little are attracting attention. But others stand out a lot from day one. Anyone who has looked at Gustavo Ron’s short filmography until now will have realized that he is a filmmaker with a lot to tell, that he will undoubtedly shoot films that will live forever in our hearts.
Gustavo Ron was born in Madrid on December 14, 1972. He graduated in communication from the University of Navarra. He made his film debut with the effortful Mía Sarah , a dramatic comedy co-written with Edmon Roch , in the style of classic cinema that the director liked best, like that of the master Frank Capra . A psychologist ( Daniel Guzmán ) tries to help a boy who suffers from agoraphobia after the death of his parents in a traffic accident. He falls madly in love with the boy’s sister ( Verónica Sánchez ), but getting her to notice him will be quite difficult. The director signed the veteran Fernando Fernán Gómez, as the boy’s grandfather, who would die shortly after filming. “I was a little scared, but he became a great friend of mine and he gave me a lot of advice on my professional future,” recalls Gustavo Ron.
Although Mía Sarah is not a perfect film, and the beginning is somewhat confusing, it is a hard-fought debut, with really hilarious sequences. The filmmaker graduated from school with flying colors, although he went directly to a doctorate with Live Forever , an adaptation of a novel by Sally Nicholls infinitely rounder than its predecessor. It stars Sam, an eleven-year-old boy with cancer who decides to write a book and make a movie before his death. The boy will try to fulfill a wish list of things that he would like to have done in life, some of which are impossible, which makes the film akin to Ron’s debut film, also about the desires in the field of love of Daniel Guzmán’s character.