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Film producer Julio Fernández is the guest of honour of the V Spanish Cinema Committee Meeting

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 14.12.2005

Film producer Julio Fernández is the guest of honour of the V Spanish Cinema Committee Meeting

The producer Julio Fernández, president of Filmax Entertainment, will be the the guest of honour in the fifth edition of the Spanish Cinema Committee Meeting, to be held on Thursday 15th December at 11.30 h in the Antoni Caparrós Auditorium (c/Baldiri Reixac, 4-6). Organized annually by the , a UB (University of Barcelona) group located at the Parc Científic de Barcelona, this year's event aims to bring the world of cinema closer to the public through presenting the professional trajectories of those who work in this industry.


Julio Fernández will present his experiences as a film producer, distributor and screener. The event will be chaired by the director of the “Filmoteca” of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Roc Villas, the film-maker Josep Maria Forn, the director of ESCAC, Josep Maixenchs, the commercial director of the PCB, Joan Bellavista, and the director of the Film History Research Centre, Josep Ma. Caparrós Lera.

In 1987, Julio Fernández (born in Lugo, 1947) bought Filmax and over the years he has made it into one of the leading Spanish companies in the audiovisual sector. His activity as a producer has been consolidated with the development, within Filmax, of Bren Entertainment, a brand devoted to fiction films and computer-assisted 3D animation, and Castelao Productions, which focuses on the production or co-production of non-fiction films. He has also promoted his own company devoted to fantasy and horror, the Fantastic Factory, which has produced films such as Rottweiler</i< (2005) by Brian Yuzna; The Nun (2004) by Luis de Madrid; The Werewolf Hunt (2004) by Paco Plaza; and Fragile (2005) by Jaume Balagueró. In addition, in order to discover new film-makers he has set up the enterprise named Fantastic Discovery, which has produced films such as Killing Words (2003) by Laura Mañá and The Nameless (1999) by Jaume Balagueró.

Julio Fernández’s company owns several multi-cinema complexes throughout Spain and in 2006 plans to establish itself in the Catalonia Audiovisual Park, in Terrassa, where it will build a set of 1,200 m2 for film production. Several times winner of the “Goya” award given by the Spanish Film Academy for productions such as Darkness, Goomer and El Cid, Julio Fernández has participated in films made by several Catalan directors, such as Antoni Verdaguer, José Antonio de la Loma, Joaquim Jordà, Dolors Payàs, Lluís Comeron, and Joan Potau, among others.