Pere Herms Clapers was born on 17th September 1975 in Avinyó (Barcelona). He showed a great interest in the audio-visual world from an early age, making his first short feature at 13. He studied Image and Sound at the La Salle Bonanova University, graduating in 1999. His final film at university was “Once upon a time there was Ethiopia… the birth of a documentary”. In 2000 he studied Video- and Film-making at the Idep School (Barcelona), at which he now works as a teacher. In 2001 he directed his first documentary, “Habarigani” a piece on the work carried out by an NGO in Kenya. Since then, the Catalan documentary director has performed his own projects with the aim of using documentary as a tool to bring us closer to and more aware of peoples and cultures. In 2004 he participated as a cameraman and editor in a 3-chapter series entitled “Tribes of Ethiopia”, produced by Alma Ata International Pictures and broadcast on Televisión Española (Spanish state television) in March 2004. One of these chapters was nominated for a prize at the 2005 Biarritz FIPA Festival. In 2005 he directed a documentary series, with 4 chapters, called “Peoples of the Rift Valley”, produced by Abyssinia Films and Danakil Produccions and which is to be broadcast on Televisión Española in 2006. This year he has also been directing his latest work: “Norro, a story of female circumcision”

Documental que muestra los trabajos de ayuda humanitaria que la fundación Cirujanos Plástikos Mundi desarrolla en Wamba, un pueblo ubicado en medio de la zona Samburu (Kenya). Esta ONG dedica sus esfuerzos a la cirugía reconstructiva. También se hace un reconocimiento a la labor y 30 años de dedicación a los más necesitados del fundador del hospital de Wamba: el Dr. Prandoni.