Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

{{Short description|Spanish film director, script writer, and producer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|12|5}}

| birth_place = Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

| occupation = Director, producer, writer

| yearsactive = 1986–present

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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (born 5 December 1967) is a Spanish film director, script writer, and producer. He directed Intacto and 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later. His film Esposados was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1996.

Biography

=Early life=

Fresnadillo was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. In 1977, at the age of nine, he witnessed the aftermath of the Tenerife airport disaster, which in part inspired his 2001 film Intacto.{{cite web|last1=Gonzalez|first1=Ed|title=Intacto|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/intacto|website=Slant Magazine|date=7 November 2002 |access-date=21 June 2015}} In 1985, Fresnadillo moved to Madrid.

=Movie career=

He started out in photography and cinema studies and then began his career in short films. In 1987, he set up a production company which produced several short films and commercials.[http://www.filmbug.com/db/342848 Filmbug]. Fresnadillo went on to become a production assistant for Gustavo Fuertes' short film El juicio final (1991) (U.S. title The Final Judgement).

In 1996, he made his directorial debut with the black-and-white short film Esposados (U.S. title: Linked), for which he was also the executive producer. This black comedy tells the story of a couple who are constantly fighting over money; when they find themselves winning the Christmas lottery, however, they have such different ideas about what to do next that the husband tries to get rid of his wife. Esposados won 40 national and international awards. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film in the same year, making Fresnadillo an overnight star in Spain.

In 2001, he directed his first full-length picture, the thriller Intacto. The film received several awards, most notably two 2002 Goya Awards (one of them for Fresnadillo in the category of Best New Director) and six further Goya nominations.

Fresnadillo then completed the 3-minute black-and-white picture Psicotaxi (2002), starring and portraying Alejandro Jodorowsky.

In 2006, he directed 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Danny Boyle's 2002 film 28 Days Later.

On 7 April 2011, it was announced that he would be directing and co-writing the screenplay for the remake of The Crow.{{cite web|url=http://moviefy.net/directors-crew/juan-carlos-fresnadillo-will-direct-the-crow/|title=Hacked by ice-cream|date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090812/http://moviefy.net/directors-crew/juan-carlos-fresnadillo-will-direct-the-crow/|archive-date=4 March 2016}} In October 2011, news broke that Fresnadillo was no longer attached to the Crow remake.{{cite web|author=MrDisgusting on October 14, 2011 |url=http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/26741/ |title='The Crow' Dying, No Actor or Director Attached... |publisher=Bloody Disgusting! |date=2011-10-14 |access-date=2016-06-13}}

On 25 August 2014, Variety reported that Fresnadillo was in talks to develop and possibly direct a thriller titled The Last Witness about the lone survivor of a bomb attack in Boston.{{cite web|title = '28 Weeks Later' Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo in Talks for Thriller 'Last Witness'|url = https://variety.com/2014/film/news/28-weeks-later-director-juan-carlos-fresnadillo-in-talks-for-thriller-last-witness-1201290209/|website = Variety|access-date = 2015-11-05|language = en-US}}

In November 2020, he was attached to direct the Millie Bobby Brown film Damsel.{{Cite web|last1=D'Alessandro|first1=Anthony|date=2020-11-11|title=Millie Bobby Brown To Star In & Executive Produce Netflix Fantasy Movie 'Damsel'|url=https://deadline.com/2020/11/millie-bobby-brown-to-star-in-executive-produce-netflix-fantasy-movie-damsel-1234612845/|access-date=2020-12-14|website=Deadline}}

Filmography

Short film

class="wikitable"
Year ! Title ! width=65 \| Director ! width=65 \| Writer ! width=65 \| Executive Producer
1991 \| El extraño pacto \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}
1996 \| Esposados (aka Linked) \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}}
2002 \| Psicotaxi \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| {{no}}
2019 \| 4X \| {{yes}} \| {{no}} \| {{no}}

class="wikitable"

Year

! Title

! width=65 | Director

! width=65 | Writer

! width=65 | Executive
Producer

1991

| El extraño pacto

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

1996

| Esposados (aka Linked)

| {{yes}}

2002

| Psicotaxi

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

2019

| 4X

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

Feature film

class="wikitable"
Year ! Title ! width=65 \| Director ! width=65 \| Writer
2001 \| Intacto \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}}
2007 \| 28 Weeks Later \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}}
2011 \| Intruders \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}
2012 \| La senda \| {{no}} \| {{yes}}
2024 \| Damsel \| {{yes}} \| {{no}}

class="wikitable"

Year

! Title

! width=65 | Director

! width=65 | Writer

2001

| Intacto

| {{yes}}

2007

| 28 Weeks Later

| {{yes}}

2011

| Intruders

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

2012

| La senda

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

2024

| Damsel

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

Television

class="wikitable"
Year ! Title ! width=65 \| Director ! width=65 \| Executive Producer ! Notes
1990 \| Blanco \| {{Yes}} \| {{no}} \| TV movie
rowspan=2\| 2016 \| Falling Water \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| Episode "Don't Tell Bill"
Prototype \| {{Yes}} \| {{Yes}} \| TV movie
2017 \| Salvation \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| Episode "Pilot"

class="wikitable"

Year

! Title

! width=65 | Director

! width=65 | Executive
Producer

! Notes

1990

| Blanco

| {{Yes}}

| {{no}}

| TV movie

rowspan=2| 2016