{"id":6809,"date":"2018-05-25T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T10:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lashidalgas.com\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:09:58","slug":"hidalgos-knitters-manolo-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lashidalgas.com\/en\/hidalgos-knitters-manolo-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"HIDALGOS KNITTERS#MANOLO MART\u00cdNEZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMan Mart\u00ednez<\/a> was just a boy when he caught the eye of the man who would become his trainer for more than 10 years. Manolo used to go everywhere on his bike. Carlos Bur\u00f3n, who was training nearby with his group, asked if he\u2019d like to give shot-putting a try. He decided he would, and that passionate child, who then dreamed of being a professional basketball player, went on to conquer Spanish athletics. He has a personal best of 21.47 m and an extraordinary list of medals: European champion, 2002, world champion, 2003, and bronze medallist in the Athens Olympic Games, 2004.
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\nA restless man, Manolo has always wanted to get involved with people, to work to generate a collective awareness, a community. This multi-talented artist first weaved his summer dreams as a child, beside his grandmother Joaquina. She taught him to knit, using her needles like a conductor\u2019s baton, orchestrating the free spirit and creative force inside this incredible man. Since then, his personal universe has continued to grow.
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Manolo has experimented in numerous fields: painting, sculpture, photography, music and poetry. But what really moves him, and where he feels most at home, is working in audiovisual media. The world of film and acting came to him like athletics, by chance. Film director Ad\u00e1n Aliaga was looking for an actor with Manolo\u2019s physique to play the starring role in his film Estigmas (\u201cStigmas\u201d). After months of fruitless searching, he decided to ask Manolo directly. Despite never having worked as an actor, and after some initial doubts, he managed to climb into the skin of Bruno Marotti, the marginal character and confirmed drinker from the Italian comic. Since then, he\u2019s worked intermittently in film and television. His latest role was in 2018, in the Spanish series Apaches, broadcast on Antena 3.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all. To enable him to keep exploring all the different facets of the audiovisual world, he founded a small production studio in his home town of Le\u00f3n. To date, he\u2019s directed a documentary series, Sue\u00f1os de Oro (\u201cGolden Dreams\u201d), and two short films, Tr\u00edptico (\u201cTriptych\u201d) (the name of his project), and P\u00e1ramos (\u201cWastelands\u201d), where, besides being the director, he\u2019s also the scriptwriter and an actor.<\/p>\n

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