Dani Salas
Filmmaker, photographer, video editor, documentary producer and professional climber and mountaineer. From his beginnings on Spanish TVE “Al filo de lo Imposible”, he has dedicated his entire career to the audiovisual world. His versatility has led him to produce high-quality documentary works, his guiding principle being the human side of sports and meticulous cinematography.
Since then, he has developed a broad career, his most recent work being the audiovisual follow-up of the project “El Reto de Carlos Soria” with BBVA contents, “El Heladero del Himalaya” for Discovery Channel, or the documentary film “Jugando a Escalar” by Dokumalia Producciones.
“RESCATE” (2020-2023) docu-serie, currently broadcast on La 2 de TVE, with three seasons, and “CAEM” (2023-2025) for Prime Video with two seasons has set a style in its genre (IMDb, Filmaffinity). A great television success that he hopes will mark a turning point for mountain and adventure content.
During 2018 he directed one of his most personal projects: “Colgados” a new factual tv program produced for A3media group. Again with his camera and after becoming an RPAS drone pilot, also with aerial photography.
Last five years, he also has been working for Nacional Geographic “The Dare of Garamba”, “Proteger bajo el fuego“ (TVE version). Both project through CropTv.
“Informe Robinson” one of the most importan program from MovistarPlus.
“Control de Fronteras”, best tv premiere of the year in DMAX (CropTv), and “Hermano Mayor” from CuatroTv (Mediaset). Also for Cuatro TV I was also working with Jesus Calleja and Emilio Valdes in the TV show “Planeta Calleja”.
Currently, he is the director of Dokumalia Productions and also are cooperating some NGO protects like SOS Himalaya Foundation “SosTrailer”, or IntermonOxfam trailwalker.
Besides, he is following different athletes like Antonio de la Rosa, “SÓLO” audiovisual project and working for new streaming programme in climbing competition.
From 1998, he also worked with AXN, Spanish Geographic Society, Polytechnic University, Avista multimedia, and other small projects.
“I want to show from the other side what moves a person to walk around the world and into inhospitable places, surrounded by lot of ice, between the desert sand or delimited by a thick jungle, and I enjoy it a lot!”
Now he continues working on the development of new formats always in relation to the outdoor and environment projects and he is immersed in the world of audiovisual training with Canon España and different universities or schools such us ESCAC, UFV or MADS.
Follow the daily life of Dani Salas and get in touch with him for whatever you need:
Mobile phone +34 616367302
Skype: dani.dokumalia