JAIME OLíAS
Jaime Olías de Lima Pancorbo was born in Madrid in 1989. In 2013 he graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid. Later, he studies a Master’s Degree in Film Directing and Screenwriting at the Factoría del Guión, Madrid. Jaime combines his studies in film with his training as an actor with teachers such as Carmen Rico, Yael Belicha, Clara Csials, Pilar López or Adrien McCour.
HIS ACTING CAREER
In 2011 he took off his acting career for series and films such as: ¨Promotion Phantom¨ by Javier Ruiz Caldera (2012). ¨Opens Windows¨ by Nacho Vigalondo (2014), ¨Solo Química¨ by Alfono Albacete (2015), ¨Vulcania¨ by Jose Skaf (2015), ¨Seguidores¨ by Iván Fernández de Córdoba (2018) or the series for Amazon Prime ¨ EL CID¨ (2020). In 2015, he received the ¨Talamanca Futuro¨ award at the Talamanca Film Awards in its IX edition and the Best Actor award at the León Film and Television Festival 2017.
HIS CAREER AS DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER
As a fiction director and scriptwriter, he begins his career with the short film ¨Rojo¨ (2015) winner of the Visual Talent award at the Jameson Notodo Filmfest. Later he wrote, directed and produced the short film ¨Hubiéramos¨ (2018) which is selected in more than 30 national and international festivals (Las Alfas del Pi, Islantilla Cineforum, Gines en short, Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage) and thanks to which it wins the European Commission ¨EUandMe¨with the best script in the category ¨Rights¨ with his script ¨The Sound of Mine¨. Thanks to this opportunity, he receives the necessary funds to carry out the production. The short film is presented at the Madrid Film Academy in 2019.
In 2019 he shoots his fourth short film ¨Monstruo¨, with the support of the Murcia City Council and the Torrelodones City Council. The short film is still in the distribution phase. Finally, in 2020, during the confinement by COVID-19, he made a homemade short film without means, ¨Reverso¨, echoing the good results of the media such as El Mundo, El País, FormulaTV, TVE, RNE and El Español; and reaching in a few days more than 100,000 views on IG and YouTube.
From 2017 to the present, Jaime combines his work as an actor and director, with work as an advertising director of spots for brands such as: Iberia, Avis, Deloitte, Correos, Engie, etc.