Fran Villalba (composer)
Fran Villalba (Asunción, 7 November 1978) is a Paraguayan 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). 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). He was selected for Talents Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2014. He released his first album of instrumental music "Universo Paralelo" in 2014. 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.