Javi Prada, holding a degree in Directing and Screenwriting from the Ponferrada film school, co-founded the production company "The Other Side Films" with his brother in 2010. As a director, he has made more than 30 short films, including "Lo Estipulado" (more than 50 awards), "Llegar", and "Spyglass" (more than 20 awards and Oscar shortlists). In documentaries and TV series, he has directed "Vicente Aranda 50 años de Cine" and the RTVE series "Dorien" (more than 30 international awards). As a producer, he participated in "Pieles" (3 Goya nominations) and the short film "Plastic Killer" (2023 Oscar finalist). In 2024, he produced "Historias de Halloween" and the documentary "Al margen", and received a nomination at the Forqué Awards for the short film "Evanescente". His short film "Prejuicios" is in the short film section of the San Sebastián Film Festival. He will soon premiere his first feature film as a director: "Gummy". The 80s were a time of great splendor for the slasher and horror genre, in which children of that era "coexisted" with monsters and serial killers as a normal occurrence and without any hesitation in keeping our eyes glued to the cinema screen. Names like Jason, Freddy, or Chucky were, in some cases, more familiar than Espinete and Don Pimpón. In Spain, we experienced this "splendor" in an exciting way alongside the movida madrileña and the early years of democracy. However, genre cinema was relegated to the background due to the constraints of the Miró Law and the type of films producers were forced to make. Unfortunately, as directors, we lacked Spanish reference points, except for an occasional anti-establishment and uncommercial title like Iván Zulueta's “Arrebato”, or authors like Juan Piquer Simón, who brought us works such as “Slugs Muerte Viscosa” or “Mil gritos tiene la noche”. In our story, “Gummy” is a character who reminds us of those fragile, timid men who, deep down, harbor a dark past.