| Birth Name: | Carlos Francisco Villalba Greco |
| Birth Date: | 7 November 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Asunción, Paraguay |
| Genre: | Film scores, soundtracks, instrumental |
| Occupation: | Film composer, music producer and executive producer |
| Years Active: | 1996–present |
| Website: | http://www.franvillalba.com |
| Instruments: | Piano, keyboard, synthesizer, guitar and accordion |
Fran Villalba is a Paraguayan-Italian composer, music producer and executive producer. He has composed scores for many short films and featured films. He is best known as the composer of the award-winning Paraguayan film 7 Boxes (2012).
He holds a degree in accounting from Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción".
He has a classical music education (Piano Professor, Accésit and Professor of Music Theory), self-taught studies in harmony, composition and electronic music. He holds a master's degree in Composition of Soundtracks and Music for Audiovisual Media from the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and a master´s degree in Executive Production for Films and Series from the Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid. He has been recently selected to participate in the Berlinale Talents 2024.
He was keyboardist of the rock band Gaudí (1996–2010), with whom he recorded 3 albums "Radio Fábula" (1996), "Turbo" (1999), and "La Vida es Más" (2010).
Fran won a scholarship to attend the Laboratory of Music for Film in 2013, which belongs to film laboratories for professionals in Mexico City (Mexico).[1] He was selected for Talents Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2014.
He released his first album of instrumental music Universo Paralelo in 2014.[2]
He is known for his work on "7 Boxes" (2012) award-winning for Film in Progress at the International Film Festival of San Sebastian and nominated for Goya Awards, "#Ya" (2015) World Premiere at the 65th Berlinale - Generation 14 Plus Competition, "Peaches" (2017) named as The Raindance Film of the Festival Award, "Selva" (2017) nominee for La Semaine de la Critique - Cannes competition, "3 feet" (2019) winner of the Special City Award at the Kineko International Children's Film Festival, and "Cazando Gamusinos" (2019) winner of The Children Jury Special Mention at the Tbilisi International Animation Festival.
He is a member of the European Film Academy and the Paraguayan Film Academy.
Fran has been working as a composer and music producer on his own Planetario Music Studio since 2006.