Fran Villalba (composer)

Fran Villalba (Asunción, 7 November 1978) is a Paraguayan film composer and pianist. He has composed scores for many short films and featured films. He is best known as the composer of the award-winning Paraguayan film 7 Boxes (2012).

Fran Villalba (composer)
Background information
Birth nameCarlos Francisco Villalba Greco
Born7 November 1978
Asunción, Paraguay
Origin Paraguay  Italy
GenresFilm scores, soundtracks, instrumental
Occupation(s)Musician, film composer, producer
InstrumentsPiano, keyboard, synthesizer, guitar and accordion
Years active1996–present
Websitehttp://www.franvillalba.com

Education and career

He holds a degree in Accounting from Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción".

He has a classical music education (Piano Professor, Accésit and Professor of Music Theory), self-taught studies in harmony, composition and electronic music. He holds a Master degree in Composition of Soundtracks and Music for Audiovisual Media from the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.

He was keyboardist of the rock band Gaudí (1996–2010), with whom he recorded 3 albums "Radio Fábula" (1996), "Turbo" (1999), and "La Vida es Más" (2010).

Fran won a scholarship to attend the Laboratory of Music for Film in 2013, which belongs to film laboratories for professionals in Mexico City (Mexico).[1] He was selected for Talents Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2014.

He released his first album of instrumental music Universo Paralelo in 2014.[2]

He is known for his work on "7 Boxes" (2012) award winning for Film in Progress at the International Film Festival of San Sebastian and nominated for Goya Awards, "#Ya" (2015) World Premiere at the 65th Berlinale - Generation 14 Plus Competition, "Peaches" (2017) named as The Raindance Film of the Festival Award, "Selva" (2017) nominee for La Semaine de la Critique - Cannes competition, "3 feet" (2019) winner of the Special City Award at the Kineko International Children´s Film Festival, and "Cazando Gamusinos" (2019) winner of The Children Jury Special Mention at the Tbilisi International Animation Festival.

Fran has been working as a composer and music producer on his own Planetario Music Studio since 2006.

Discography
  • Universo Paralelo (2014)

Filmography
  • Opaco (2006)
  • Minotauro (2008)
  • Jazmines del Alma: La vida de Chiquitunga (2009)
  • Universo servilleta (2010)
  • 7 cajas (2012)
  • #Ya (2015)
  • Km 72 (2015)
  • De lunes a lunes (2016)
  • Liviano (2016)
  • Selva (2016)[3]
  • Un Bosque (2017)
  • Hoy partido a las 3 (2017)
  • Río atrevido (TV Mini-Series 2017)
  • Mujeres entre fronteras (TV Mini-Series 2017)
  • Mr. Emmett & Los Melocotones enlatados (2017)
  • México 1984 (2017)
  • Venus Flytrap (2017)
  • The Muse (2017)
  • Hycha Guaia (2018)
  • Tercer Acto (2018)
  • 3 feet (2018)
  • Cazando Gamusinos (2018)
  • A casa (2019)
  • Santa Clara (2019)[4]
  • Divine Woman (2020)
  • Yacaa (2020)

Other work (additional music)
  • Die Toten reiten schnell (2015)

Awards
  • Rock and Pop Paraguay Awards 2000 – Best Paraguayan keyboardist (winner).
  • 45 Talents of the year 2013 El País Awards – One of the 45 talents of the year by the Spanish newspaper (winner).[5]
  • Unasur International Film Festival Awards 2013 (Argentina) – Best Sound design/Original Music award for the score of "7 Boxes" (winner).[6]
  • Tatakua Festival 2017 (Paraguay) - Best Original Soundtrack award for the advertisement "Moving fans" for Laika Agency (winner).
  • Experimental Film, Dance & Music Festival 2017 (Canada) - Best Music award for "A Forest" (winner).
  • SciFi Film Festival (Australia) 2018 - Best Music/Sound award for the score of "Melocotones" (winner).
  • US Hollywood International Golden Film Award (USA) 2019 - Excellence-Music for the score of "Cazando Gamusinos" (nominee).
  • Indie Film Awards (Japan) 2020 - Best Music for the score of "Cazando Gamusinos" (nominee).
  • National Competition of Artistic Creation for the 150 years of the Guasu War (Paraguay) 2020 - Second prize "Campamento Cerro León" of Musical Creation (winner).

References
  1. "Un paraguayo becado para estudiar con la productora de Guillermo del Toro". Última hora.
  2. Coronel, Jorge (31 January 2014). "Música que se mueve". ABC Color.
  3. "La música de Fran Villalba llega a Cannes". ABC Color.
  4. "Nota de prensa de su participación en Santa Clara". El Deber.
  5. Sucasas, Ángel Luis (16 July 2013). "Soñar sinfonías para Almodóvar". El País.
  6. "Todos los ganadores del Festival Unasur 2013". Punto Cine.

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