Jean Vigo was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
María Antonia Abad FernándezMML, known professionally as Sara Montiel, also Sarita Montiel, was a Spanish-Mexican actress and singer. She began her career in the 1940s and became the most internationally popular and highest paid star of Spanish cinema in the 1960s. She appeared in nearly fifty films and recorded around 500 songs in five different languages.
José Luis García Muñoz, known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish film director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. One of the most influential film personalities in the history of film in Spain, he earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots. Currently, he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood.
Isabel Coixet Castillo is a Spanish film director. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials. Her films depart from the traditional national cinema of Spain, and help to “untangle films from their national context ... clearing the path for thinking about national film from different perspectives.” The recurring themes of “emotions, feelings, and existential conflict” coupled with her distinct visual style secure the “multifaceted ” filmmaker's status as a “Catalan auteur.”
José Luis López Vázquez de la TorreMMT was a Spanish actor, comedian, costume designer, scenic designer, and assistant director whose career spanned nearly seven decades. One of the most prolific and successful actors in Spain in the 20th century, he starred in 262 films between 1946 and 2007. Internationally he was best known for his lead role in the surrealist horror telefilm La cabina (1972).
Death of a Cyclist is a 1955 social realist Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and starring Italian actress Lucia Bosè, who was dubbed into Spanish by Elsa Fábregas. It won the FIPRESCI Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Pablo Berger Uranga is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing and writing the silent drama film Blancanieves (2012), the black comedy films Torremolinos 73 (2003) and Abracadabra (2017), and the animated tragicomedy film Robot Dreams (2023).
Primer Plano was a Spanish film magazine established on 20 October 1940. The founder was a Falange member Manuel Augusto García Viñolas. It was published on a weekly basis. The Falange-influenced publication struck a balance between its coverage of film stars and film reviews, as well as the role of entertainment and film in society.
Alberto Rodríguez Librero is a Spanish film director and screenwriter from Andalusia.
The Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos (CEC), known as "Cinema Writers Circle" in English, is a private nonprofit organization supporting cinema and filmmakers in Spain. It awards the annual CEC Awards, commonly known as Premios CEC.
The CEC Awards or CEC Medals, whose full name is Medallas del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos, are awards presented annually by the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos to distinguish films, artists, technicians, and writers related to cinema, both Spanish and international. The ceremony held its first edition in 1946, when it awarded prizes in thirteen different categories. The categories have varied over time, and in 2016, there were twenty. The awards went through a period of crisis in the 1980s, and the ceremony was suspended from 1986 until 1990. The prize consists of a simple bronze medal and has no financial prize attached to it. They are the oldest cinematic awards in Spain.
Twilight is a 1945 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho and starring Arturo de Córdova, Gloria Marín and Julio Villarreal.
Fire in the Blood is a 1953 Spanish drama film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring António Vilar and Marisa de Leza. It was made by the Barcelona-based IFI Producción.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His solo directorial debut Stockholm earned him a nomination for the Goya Award for Best New Director in 2014. For his short film Mother, Sorogoyen won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film in 2018 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards. In 2019, Sorogoyen won the Goya Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for The Realm, a feat he repeated in 2023 with The Beasts, which won a total of 9 awards at the 37th Goya Awards, including Best Film. The Beasts also won him the César Award for Best Foreign Film. He often works in tandem with Isabel Peña.
Carla Simón Pipó is a Spanish film director. Both her 2017 debut feature Summer 1993 and her second feature, Alcarràs, were submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to represent Spain for Best International Feature Film at the 90th and 95th Academy Awards, respectively.
Prison 77 is a 2022 Spanish historical thriller drama film directed by Alberto Rodríguez from a screenplay co-written with Rafael Cobos which stars Miguel Herrán and Javier Gutiérrez.
Vicenta Ndongo is a Spanish actress. She earned early public recognition for her role in Airbag.
Luis Cuadrado Encinar was a Spanish cinematographer. He became especially known for his work on the 1973 film The Spirit of the Beehive.
Alfredo Fraile Lallana was a Spanish cinematographer and film producer.
The Door Is There is a 2023 Uruguayan-Spanish documentary film written and directed by Facundo Ponce de León and Juan Ponce de León in their respective feature directorial debuts. The film is about the friendship between Dr. Enric Benito and his patient Fernando Sureda, who seeks an early death.
