Diego Galán

Diego Galán

Born: October 13, 1946
in Tétouan, Morocco
Diego Galán Fernández (Tangier, Morocco, October 13, 1946), film critic and film director, director of the San Sebastian International Film Festival between 1986 and 1989 and between 1995 and 2000. After working as an administrative and accounting officer in several companies and as an actor in some theatrical companies, his love for film led him to direct the JAASA Cinema Club, in Madrid, between 1966 and 1968, after which he served as a member of the board director of the National Federation of Film Clubs. His activity extends, during those same years, to the professional field, where he works as an assistant director in some TVE programs made by Pedro Olea and Josefina Molina, in the Tele Club series and Los pintores del Prado, and in feature films for cinema. During the seventies, he also entered the field of performing with four short films that he wrote and directed solo.

Movies for Diego Galán...

Olea… ¡Más alto!
Title: Olea… ¡Más alto!
Character: Self - Film Critic
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
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El Cepa Returns
Title: El Cepa Returns
Character: Self
Released: May 24, 2019
Type: Movie
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), took place.
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Los chicos de la foto
Title: Los chicos de la foto
Character: Self
Released: May 24, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
Title: The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
Character: Interviewee
Released: February 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Documentary about Spanish director Luis García Berlanga's "The Executioner" (1963)