José Luis Cuerda
José Luis Cuerda ( born February 18, 1947 in Albacete, Spain ) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter.
Life
He studied law in Madrid, but broke it off after three years and was broadcast technician. With this training, he began in 1969 to work in the Spanish public television, where he made five years over 500 documentaries for the news service. Between 1985 and 1987 he worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. After a few short films, he succeeds in 1982 to obtain funding for his first film Pares y nones. With this film, he became one of the most important representatives of the so-called Madrid Comedy ( comedia madrileña ), the great popularity in Spain enjoyed the 80s. His next film, El bosque animado (1987 ), Put on a new creative phase Cuerdas, which is characterized by the recourse to a surrealist humor. A year later, in 1988, the film was released in theaters, which would consolidate him as a competent filmmaker ( Amanece que no es poco ). With Así en la tierra como en el cielo (1995 ), he was rounded off with a kind of triptych, whose basis is a bizarre sense of humor.
With The Time of the Butterflies (1999) he created a story about the relationship of a child to his teacher who is politically overshadowed by the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
He is also known as the discoverer and patron of Alejandro Amenábar. So Cuerda produced, for example, Amenábar's Tesis Movies - The snuff film, The Others and Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes. In 2008 his feature film Los girasoles ciegos was selected as the official Spanish contribution to a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards 2009.