How wonderful when actors of the level of Meryl Streep or Javier Bardem show examples of Physical Actions that enriches and enhances their characters. Mat Cruz shares two movie fragments: one of "The Deer Hunter", by Michael Cimino, and other of "No Country for Old Men" by Ethan Jesse Cohen and Joel David Cohen. In…

Who said second parts never were good? We bring you the second tutorial to create your showreel at home. The most important part of a scene is the script, when we develop it we are creating the characters, giving life to locations and creating a universe where anything we wish can happen. Alberto Gallego, film…
For an actor, a showreel is it's presentation card. With a quality showreel you can find casting opportunities, but we know not everybody decides to call on a professional team, so we created... La Masia Mini-Tutorials! In this mini tutorials series we share with you the most important TIPS for each phase in which the…
Are you struggling with google about it? How to create a showreel?, where to shoot a showreel?, showreel for actors in Madrid?, what´s a showreel? Then you arrived to the perfect place. Welcome to La Masia! The place that gathers film professionals since 2015 with the objetive of creating fiction scenes. In this trip, while…


On October 13, Mat Cruz, Co-Founder at La Masia, did an interview with Borja García in “Butaca y Butacón”, program on “laFM.es” , in which they talked about our book “Representante, que no es poco”, book that gives voice to 62 actor's agents in our country, Spain. One of the most featured worldwide jobs is…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R221ZRovwog On October 14, we published the book Representante que no es Poco, the first book that gathers advices and experiences of 62 reputed actor's agents in Spain. With this book we open a window to the actor's world, from a very unique point of view: the one of the agents. In this book we…

After been analyzing what we need in a pre-production, script and during the filming, today we dedicate this tutorial about how to create a free showreel to what interest all of us, the acting. Mat Cruz actor and acting coach in La Masia Reels mentions the most common problems. The text is not The Bible,…

Now it's here the third chapter of our tutorials to help you shoot your free showreel. Once you already have your script, find your location, and have all the actors confirmed you can start the filming. On this video, Alberto Gallego, film director in La Masia, advises to work with first close ups or medium…

Catalunya Radio invite us to their program to talk about the project we are working in for the last year, our two books "Conversaciones con Representantes y Directores de Casting". Click here to listen: 👇 https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_hwz_JCqKg/?igshid=5mulynmck2t8 It is a project that developed and it's generating a lot of illusion between the professionals of…

This past Sunday, November 8, during the Radio Marca program by "La Claqueta", a program where people speak, and very well, about the world of cinema and which is directed by Pepe Nieves, the main theme was our book "Representante que no es Poco". The great Miguel-Fernando Ruiz de Villalobos recommends and explains the book.…

Today we bring you an AMAZING interview that our co-founder Mat Cruz did in ABCPlay, the section of the ABC newspaper dedicated to film and television. On October 16, Lorena López interviewed Mat about the book "Representante que no es Poco". In this interview they talked about how the world of agents is perceived from…