Film and television director · Screenwriter
Antonio Cuadri
Four Ondas Awards. Best Film at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. Since 1977, telling stories for cinema and television: from the satire of Las noticias del guiñol to the mining epic of The Heart of the Earth.
- Ondas Awards
- 4
- Lectures in Europe and the Americas
- +50
- First film, on Super 8
- 1977
- Founding member of the Spanish Television Academy
- 1997
A summary in English. The full website is in Spanish.
Las noticias del guiñol · 1995–1996 
La buena voz · 2006 
Cuéntame cómo pasó · 2008–2010 
Riotinto: el latido de la tierra · 2004
About
A life behind the camera
He began shooting fiction shorts on Super 8 while studying film and television at the Complutense University of Madrid (1977–1982).
He started out in Seville in 1983 as a director, producer and screenwriter for Spanish Television (TVE) in Andalusia, and from 1987 for Canal Sur, developing documentary series, news programmes and magazine programmes. In 1989 he moved to Madrid. At Canal+ (1995–1997) he directedLo + Plus and Las noticias del guiñol; at Bocaboca he created and directed the teen series Al salir de clase for Telecinco.
His first feature, La gran vida (2000), starred Salma Hayek and Carmelo Gómez. Eres mi héroe won him Best Director at Peñíscola, and El corazón de la tierra (2007), based on the novel by Juan Cobos Wilkins and shot with an international cast, won Best Film in Los Angeles. He has also directed episodes of Cuéntame cómo pasó, Manolito Gafotas and Fugitiva. With Claudio Crespo, he created EntreOlivos and adapted Hotel Almirante for television.
Member of SGAE and founding member of the Spanish Television Academy.
Work
Selected films and series
2007 · Feature film
El corazón de la tierra The Heart of the Earth
Director, producer and screenwriter
2017 · Feature film · Spain–Mexico
Operación Concha
Director
2013 · Feature film
Thomas vive
Director and screenwriter
2006 · Feature film
La buena voz The Good Voice
Director
2003 · Feature film
Eres mi héroe You’re My Hero
Director, producer and screenwriter
2000 · Feature film
La gran vida Living It Up
Director
2018 · Series · TVE and Netflix
Fugitiva
Episode director
2016 · Series · Canal Sur
EntreOlivos
Co-creator, director and screenwriter
2015 · Miniseries · TVG
Hotel Almirante
Director and screenwriter
2008–2010 · Series · TVE
Cuéntame cómo pasó
Director of six episodes
1997–2001 · Series · Telecinco
Al salir de clase
Creator and director
1995–1996 · Satirical news show · Canal+
Las noticias del guiñol
Director and producer
A film by Antonio Cuadri · 2007
The Heart of the Earth
El corazón de la tierra · Based on the novel by Juan Cobos Wilkins
“A true chapter of our history”
Spain, late nineteenth century. A powerful British company wins a concession to work the ancient Riotinto mines, in Huelva, for more than thirty years.
Nine-year-old Blanca Bosco and her inseparable English friend Kathleen, niece of the British manager, witness the miserable living conditions of the workers, many of them children, and the terrible air pollution and acid rain that ravage the region. Crops, livestock, trees, rivers and, above all, the people, from Seville to southern Portugal, suffer from the toxic fumes.
Catalina Sandino Moreno · Sienna Guillory · Philip Winchester · Bernard Hill · Joaquim de Almeida · Jorge Perugorría · Ana Fernández
Best Film, Los Angeles 2007 · Official Selection, Rome 2007 · Closing film, Miami 2007 · Official Selection, Cairo 2008
Awards
Awards and festivals
Ondas AwardsMost Innovative Programme1996 Lo + Plus
Ondas AwardsBest Entertainment Programme1997 Las noticias del guiñol
Ondas AwardsBest Fiction Series2001 Al salir de clase
Ondas AwardsBest Youth Magazine Programme2001 Desesperado Club Social
Peñíscola International Comedy Film FestivalBest Director2003 Eres mi héroe
Los Angeles Latino International Film FestivalJury Award · Best Film2007 El corazón de la tierra
Spanish Television AcademyBest Director (shared with the directing team)2008–2009 Cuéntame cómo pasó
International Catholic Film Festival · Vatican CityMirabile Dictu Award2012 Hay mucha gente buena
Selected festivals
- Montreal World Film Festival · 2003 and 2006
- Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival · Best US Premiere, 2003
- Chicago Latino Film Festival · closing film, 2004
- Spanish Film Week, New York · 2005
- Miami International Film Festival · closing film, 2007
- Rome Film Festival · Official Selection, 2007
- Cairo International Film Festival · Official Selection, 2008
Teaching
Teaching the art of seeing
He has taught workshops, seminars and courses in screenwriting, directing and acting at universities and film schools in Spain and Latin America, and has worked as a script doctor for production companies and master’s programmes.
- International University of La Rioja (UNIR) · Script doctor, Master’s in Screenwriting
- University of Seville · Master’s in Fiction Screenwriting; EUSA courses
- International University of Andalusia (UNIA) · Summer courses
- University of Cádiz · Screenwriting and directing seminar
- Centro Universitario Villanueva (Complutense) · Executive Producing for Television Series
- ECAM Film School, Madrid · Centro TAI, Madrid
- Cinemateca de Santo Domingo · Global Dominican Film Festival
More than 50 lectures on film and television since 1995, in cities including Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bucharest, Rome, London, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Miami and New York.
Contact
Let’s talk about film
Press and interviews · Festivals and retrospectives · Teaching, masterclasses and lectures · Film and television projects
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