Riccardo Áscar (Salamanca, 1961) took a degree in law before entering a career in filmmaking. His BADU. Stories from the Negev Desert (1994) won him numerous awards at ethnography festivals and was selected by Jean Rouch for screening during the exhibition Bilan du Film Ethnographique at the Musée de L ´Homme, Paris.His short films include El Diario de Manuel Ángel (1991) and A la Orilla del RÁo (1991). He has worked extensively as sound and photography technician in Spain and Germany; in 1998 he began teaching at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, and the CECC.He has collaborated with José LuÁs GuerÁn, Joaquin JordÁ¡ and numerous other filmmakers who have revived the art of Spanish documentary film. In recent years he made two documentaries on Andalusian fishermen, La Punta del Moral and El Cerco, and a documentary about the last remaining mines in northern Spain.