Eugenio Caballero, the Academy Award-winning production designer of Guillermo del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH, will open this year's Talents Sarajevo at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival.

Caballero will welcome 60 up-and-coming actors, directors, scriptwriters, producers, editors, film critics and cinematographers from Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus with a masterclass.

Caballero’s credits include nearly 30 films, 20 of them as a designer.

He has worked with directors Jim Jarmusch (THE LIMIT OF CONTROL), Baz Luhrmann (ROMEO AND JULIET), Sebastian Cordero (CRONICAS, RABIA and EUROPA REPORT), Floria Sigismondi (THE RUNAWAYS), Claudia Llosa (ALOFT), Fernando Eimbcke (CLUB SANDWICH) Carlos Cuaron (RUDO Y CURSI), among others. Alongside an Academy Award for Best Production Design, Caballero’s work on PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) also earned him an Ariel Award, an Art Directors’ Guild Award (the most prestigious award in the field), a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and BAFTA Award nominations.

His work on the Oscar-winning film ROMA (2018) with director Alfonso Cuarón has earned him multiple international awards and nominations, including the Critics Choice Awards, the Art Directors’ Guild, the BAFTAs and the Academy Award.

Caballero is a seven-time nominee and two-time winner of the Ariel Award, Mexico’s main film award. He has served as a Jury member at numerous international festivals, and is a member of the AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), the Mexican and Spanish film academies.