Spanish film director and producer born in Zaragoza He studied law in his hometown and debuted as a film critic in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón In Madrid he joined the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas He exerted great influence on the medium from his teaching at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía In 1967 he founded the production company El Imán Cine y Televisión with which he has financed his own projects and those of other filmmakers Of his personal work two films stand out Furtivos 1975 Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival and a great success for its opposition to the limits of censorship at the beginning of the Spanish Transition and Leo 2000 which won the Goya for best director However both his initial commissions such as the spaghetti western Brandy 1964 and the crime film Crimen de doble filo 1965 and the controversial later films Tata mía 1986 and Niño Nadie 1996 have had little repercussion Between 1994 and 1998 he was president of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences In 2001 he was elected full member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and in 2002 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía
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