Paco Loco, José María Millán and Daniel Cervantes
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ICONS OF THE INDIE POP-ROCK SCENE

Today the Festival hosts the world premiere of Paco Loco: viva el noise, a portrait of this musical production guru and one of the greatest architects of the indie pop-rock scene in our country. Daniel Cervantes (Cádiz, 1993), organizer of the Shorty Week International Short Film Festival and a regular collaborator of eccentric artists such as Miguel Noguera or Toni Nievas, makes this biography of a spontaneous and irreverent personality, and has made possible the release of more than 800 albums by bands ranging from Australian Blonde to Bunbury, including Doctor Explosion and Nacho Vegas. Born in Mexico, although adopted first by Gijón and later by El Puerto de Santa María, Paco Loco (1963) established his recording studio there and the space where he could give free rein to his creative energy, artistic freedom and humor. The wonderful story of Maddening Flames, told in the documentary A Friendly Fire by the former drummer of that cult rock group, José María Millán Borry (El Puerto de Santa María, 1967), is precisely in the indie explosion of the 90s in this town in Cadiz. A work -also to be premiered in the Andalusian Panorama section- that invites those who witnessed its brief career, musical personalities such as Jesús Ordovás, Blas Fernández, Julio Ruiz, Fran Nixon or Paco Loco himself, to share their memory of fire.