Frida Torresblanco is a film, television, and documentary producer based in New York City. She has produced The Dancer Upstairs , The Assassination of Richard Nixon , Disobedience and Pan's Labyrinth . In 2002, Torresblanco launched a New York-based film production company, Esperanto Filmoj, in partnership with Alfonso Cuarón. She produced Cronicas , The Possibility of Hope and Rudo y Cursi .
She co-produced Pan's Labyrinth . [1]
In 2020, ViacomCBS International Studios announced it had ordered, from Jill Offman (66 Media) and Torresblanco, a drama series on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, based on Mary Garrard's Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), ISBN 9780691002859. [2]
Also in 2020, ViacomCBS Networks Intl., started development on a TV series about the life of Spanish designer Cristóbal Balenciaga. Torresblanco serving as executive producer and James Kent as director. [3]
In 2022, Paramount+ announced a new series, produced by Torresblanco and John Leguizamo, about Emma Coronel Aispuro and her path to becoming the wife of former drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. [4]
In 2024, Torresblanco co-founded Hangtime International Pictures. [5] The company would later join the production team for season 2 of The Night Manager . [6]