According to his mother, Jaume Carrió was more of a video game console player than a movie buff.

PalmThe music played loudly and reached every room of the house: from Raimon and Maria del Mar Bonet in Los Suaves, to Metallica and Scorpions. "It must be because we had music playing all the time that he's picked up our musical tastes, especially his father's," says Antònia Artigues, mother of film director Jaume Carrió (Esporles, 1983). "When he was 12 or 13, we went to see Los Suaves and he burst into tears during the concert. He's a very sensitive child. He also cries at the movies. Even today, if we go to see a film together and he gets emotional and I don't, he looks at me and says: Fuck"Mom."

Antonia says that when he was little, he was "more of a video game console kid than a movie buff." He loved playing with pencil sharpeners, but he also drew very well and read comics. His parents were surprised by his imagination: "His friends from the video game arcade often came over and had a blast. However, when they went out to play outside, running around or shooting a ball, Jaume always stayed home," she recalls.

There was never any professional connection to the audiovisual industry in that house. In fact, she says that they didn't have a video camera at home until Jaume bought one. What they did share was an interest in watching movies. Artigues explains: "We had a VHS player and we would go to rent movies in Son Sardina, because there wasn't a video store in Esporles. A couple of times a week we would go to Palma and go to the cinema and watch the week's new releases. The first movie he saw in a cinema was Masters of the Universe"Those were her favorite toys, by the way. She must have been about eight years old," Antonia recalls.

In the Carrió Artigues family, traditionally, only Three Kings Day was celebrated. But when Santa Claus became popular, a new tradition was established that is observed every Christmas Eve: "We would buy a VHS tape for each of us (four in total), and we would watch one that same night." Antonia points out that Jaume, from a very young age, felt a strong fascination with horror films, and that he still enjoys it.

Cinema has been a very strong point of connection in this family of four (who knows if that's why Jaume Carrió decided he wanted to dedicate himself to directing films): "His father liked to watch films on a loop until he understood everything that was happening. We still use so many, many lines; sometimes people just stare at us with blank expressions," the filmmaker's mother recounts, laughing. When he was just a few years old, right before adolescence, Jaume asked his mother: "Mom, am I a film buff?" Shortly after, he was already saying that he "wanted to work in film, even if it was on sound stages."

When it came time to choose a career, he was already clear that he wanted to study film. There were no related programs in Mallorca, and Jaume said he would stop studying and start working: he worked as a stonemason, an electrician… until he decided to study Education. It was while studying for his degree that he embarked on his first audiovisual adventure, a class project for the much-missed Professor Antoni Artigues.

His mother describes her son as a "creative, observant, empathetic, hardworking, responsible, and self-sacrificing" person who "draws strength from difficulties." She also says that "just the fact that he can show a film on the big screen is a way of helping him fulfill his dream of working in film," because it was a financial sacrifice for the family. According to his mother, Jaume's professional career "has been a path of satisfaction."