Spanish film producer, former audiovisual consultant at the Madrid regional government, AMPAS and Spanish Film Academy member, Spanish TV Academy member, member of the board in CARTOON (European Animation Producer’s Guild)PhD in Film Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, graduated in directing at ARTSS International UK and in the Entertainment Master Class at the Erich Pommer Institute in Berlin. Since 2001 has produced eleven feature films for the international market, eight of them in animation, and has won five Goya awards in the best animation feature category, one EFA award, one Platino award and twice the Jury Award at Annecy, the most important animation film festival in the world.
After working in AGAPI as manager and in the Media Business School as coordinator, he joins Dygra Films in 1999 as executive producer in the films The living forest (first CGI animation film in Europe) and Midsummer Dream. In 2005 he joins Zinkia Entertainment as development and distribution director with the series Pocoyó and Shuriken School.
In 2007 he creates Perro Verde Films and produces five films: the CGI animation film The Missing Lynx (with Kandor Moon presented by Antonio Banderas), Lost in Galicia and The night that stopped raining (both live action), Going Nuts (action and horror animation with painted peanuts) and his first 2D feature film Wrinkles based in the graphic novel by Paco Roca, directed by Ignacio Ferreras, considered one of the most relevant animation films in 2012 and released in Japan by Ghibli.
In 2013 he produces and launches in Spain the 3D stereoscopic documentary feature film Bullrunning in Pamplona. From 2012 till 2014 works as Executive Producer in the animation film Another day of life (Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018) which had its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2017 announces the production of Dragonkeeper, a CGI animation family film coproduced by Spain and China that will be released in 2023. In 2019 he
premieres the 2D animation film Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles (Salvador Simó) winner of the European Film Award as best animated film in Europe, the Goya award and the Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and at the Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles.
In 2019, he joined the Region of Madrid as Audiovisual Industry Advisor where he created a support line for feature films, another for support for video games support, and renewed the development and short film production support lines. He achieved a budget increase of 89% for projects and creates the Madrid for the Goya programme, with which short films from the region win in all three categories for two years in a row, and Madrid for the Oscars, which supported The Windshield Wiper by Alberto Mielgo from Madrid which in 2022 won the Oscar for best animated short and became the first Spanish short film to do so. In 2022 he joins Mano Animation Studios as producer of the 2D animated feature film The Glassworker.
He has been for more than 10 years member of the board in the Spanish Film Academy and Vice-President in DIBOOS (Spanish Animation Producer’s Guild): he has lectured in 21 countries. He is also a teacher at the U-TAD University and at the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid.
En 1996 he got one of the 12 European scholarships granted by the MPAA and entered as intern at UIP; in 1997 he was the first Spaniard selected for a grant of the Nipkow Programme in Berlin; in 2000 he was selected by the EFA in its new talent programme in Iceland; in 2007 he was selected as one of 60 personalities of the Cannes Film Festival by Variety; in 2008 selected producer in the move by European Film Promotion; in 2012 he got the CARTOON Tribute as best animation producer of Europe.
