Cesar Lorente Raton(I)

César Lorente Ratón is a Spanish actor born in San Fernando, Cádiz in 1974. He has directed, produced, acted and worked as a lighting designer and technician in theatre and cinema. He is also an active socio-cultural artist. He was a proactive child in theatre while at school and engaged in a semiprofessional production and toured with it in Spain when he was 19 years old. His acting training began at Lee Strasberg's Institute in London. He graduated in BA (Hons.) Theatre Studies from Middlesex University with an Erasmus exchange at RESAD (Royal School of Dramatic Arts), Madrid, and Baruch College, CUNY (City University of New York) where he attended after becoming eligible for an intercultural exchange with USA. He also did voice training with Antonietta Storchi in Milano, Italy, and body training with Fabio Mangolini in Madrid, Spain. He has a Masters in TV Production by TRACOR and El Mundo TV accredited by CEU San Pablo, Madrid, and a MBA from ThePowerMBA. As a director he has worked along with Instituto Cervantes, Spanish Embassy, promoting Spanish culture and language. He has directed and staged plays in Spanish and performed by Indian Citizens in New Delhi. As a producer and director he has created the first ever fusion of kathakali and flamenco, "Draupadi", based in the extract from Mahabharata, "The Killing of Dussasana". This is part of a socio-cultural project called "A red light to violence against women" with the objective of advocating women's dignity through the arts. He also staged his own play called "The Tunnel of Life" at Hoxton Hall, London. As a lighting designer he has worked for Teamwork in the musical "Bollywood, Love Story" by Sanjoy Roy promoting India in Egypt during the Festival "India by the Nile". He has different designs for his own shows and for other directors and producers like Juan Ollero, Madrid, Spain and Iñaki Rekarte, Basque Country. He also worked as road manager and technical chief in the tour of "Soul Pait" by Dani Pannullo in India. It is a fusion of kalaripayattum and hip-hop. The premier of the show was at Rendezvous 2014, New Delhi. He has acted as Bernarda de Alba in the production "House of Bernarda Alba" by theatre director Ishwar Shunya. This piece exposes the repression and life of women in Spain at the beginning of twentieth century. He has worked or staged his own shows in some of the most prestigious venues around the world like Hoxton Hall, London, United Kingdom; Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi; National Centre Performing Arts, Mumbai; Opera House of Cairo, El Cairo, Egypt; Opera House of Alejandria, Egypt, El Cairo; Teatro Metropolitan, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Teatro Alfil, Madrid, España; or Piccolo Teatro, Milano, Italy. Other countries where he has professional experience are Brazil and Paraguay. He has participated and worked in several International Festivals like Almeria en Corto Film Festival, Almeria, Spain; Animadrid Film Festival, Madrid, Spain; OTRO 2009 International Theatre Festival, Murcia, Spain; Delhi International Arts Festival 2012, New Delhi; Kullu Dusshera 2013, Himachal Pradesh; Literature Live Festival 2013, Mumbai; India by the Nile 2014, Egypt. In the field of cinema he has worked with film makers like Lal Jose from Kerala, Chus Gutiérrez and Oscar de Julián from Spain. While working and collaborating with Kerala Tourism, promoting the State in Spain, France, Italy and Germany since 2004, he discovered the connections and similitudes between West and East and got interested in understanding the way of seeing life in both, the West and the East. Through two apparent different art forms he discovered that there are strong connections between both cultures. Dance and theatre, woman and man, India and Spain, Kathakali and Flamenco, and his own marriage with an Indian Citizen have allowed him to reaffirm his idea that we are all the same but we just behave differently according to the evolution of humanity in the geographical point where we have been born. Universal themes like love, revenge, civil war, genre and domestic violence are common in the World. At present he is working on Barroz: Guardian of D'Gama's Treasure, directorial debut of Mohanlal, acting as Mendoza. Meanwhile he has worked in different movies in Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and Mollywood with prominent artists like Amitab Bachchan, Mahesh Bhatt, Randeep Hooda, Hritik Roshan, Rajkumar Rao, Kangana, Zoya Akhtar amongst many others in movies, webseries and commercials.