[1] Born in Barcelona, Carlos Marqués-Marcet studied Audiovisual Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, where he had his degree in 2006.

His fourth short film Udols was awarded as the best short film of the year 2008 by Cahiers du Cinéma.

In 2008 he flew to Los Angeles (California) to attend a master in Film Direction at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

His first fictional film was 10,000 km, made in Barcelona in 2014.

This film won a lot of awards in some film festivals, as Málaga Film Festival, Goya Awards (best new director) or Gaudí Awards (best director), among others.