Iván Bustinduy

Argentine-Spanish filmmaker, professor, and film curator, with a degree in Filmmaking and Film Education from the Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires), where he worked as an Associate Professor.

He directed the short films The Second Man (2021), winner of the Méliès Award at Mar del Plata Film Festival, and Animal Transport (2023), premiered at BAFICI, Palm Springs, Fantastic Fest and PÖFF Shorts. The latter was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2023/2024 Cóndor de Plata Awards, and was also featured in online short film showcases such as Vimeo Staff Picks and Short of the Week.

He is part of Colectivo Rutemberg and one of the organizers of the Argentine Film Survey. He is co-founder of TAIPEI / Crítica de cine, where he writes about film pedagogy, and works as Programming Director at Guayaba, an association focused on the promotion of Latin American cinema. Over the years, he has worked as an Assistant Programmer at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Basque Cinematheque, and has also served as a juror at film festivals in countries such as Guatemala, Peru, Spain, and Macau.

He holds a Master’s in Film Curating from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastián, Spain). His graduation project, Previous Steps: Inquiries on the Training of Filmmakers at Film Schools, is a book on film pedagogy that received a Fulbright Grant, allowing him to research American film schools at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in New York. It is scheduled to be published by TAIPEI Books in late 2026.

He is currently distributing Open Doors, his first short documentary, and is developing Time Out, his debut feature film, while teaching at the Basque Country Film School (Bilbao, Spain).