Fernando Méndez-Leite

Fernando Méndez-Leite
Attending the 37th Goya Awards
Born
Fernando Méndez-Leite Serrano

(1944-05-06) 6 May 1944 (age 80)
Madrid, Spain
Occupations
  • Film critic
  • film director
  • theatre director
  • cultural manager
  • television director
  • university lecturer
  • screenwriter
  • playwright
PartnerFiorella Faltoyano

Fernando Méndez-Leite Serrano (born 6 May 1944) is a Spanish film critic, lecturer and filmmaker. He has also worked in theatre and television.[1] He became the president of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain in 2022.

Biography

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Fernando Méndez-Leite Serrano was born in Madrid on 6 May 1944,[1][2] son to Fernando Méndez-Leite von Haffe [ca],[3][4] a falangist film writer, author of a History of the Spanish Cinema.[5] He studied filmmaking at the EOC [es] for two years after graduating in law from the University of Madrid in 1968.[4][6]

He has been active as a film critic since 1966, writing for publications such as Pueblo [es], Diario 16, Fotogramas and Guía del Ocio de Madrid, and, from 1968 to 1981, as a lecturer on Film Theory and History of Contemporary Cinema at the University of Valladolid.[2]

Among other institutional and academic positions, he has helmed the ICAA (1986–1988), the ECAM (1994–2012), and, since 2022, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.[1] A member of the Málaga Film Festival's managing committee since its inception, he was worked as a film festival programmer and as a liaison with the press there.[1]

He has had one daughter with her partner Fiorella Faltoyano: actress and acting teacher Clara Méndez-Leite.[4][7][8]

Filmography

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Books

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  • Historia del cine español en 100 películas. Madrid: Jupey. 1985.
  • Argentina en el cine español. Madrid: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales. 1993.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Arribas, Alicia G. (4 June 2022). "Fernando Méndez-Leite, cineasta sabio, profesor y crítico con mano izquierda". La Vanguardia.
  2. ^ a b Ballesteros García, Rosa Mª (2018). "Historia de un feminicidio anunciado: realidad y ficción" (PDF). Aposta. Revista de Ciencias Sociales (78): 167. ISSN 1696-7348.
  3. ^ Torres, Augusto M. (2004). Huerga y Fierro Editores (ed.). Directores españoles malditos. Huerga Y Fierro Editores. p. 222. ISBN 84-8374-480-5.
  4. ^ a b c Belategui, Oskar (4 June 2022). "Fernando Méndez-Leite, elegido presidente de la Academia de Cine". El Comercio.
  5. ^ Martialay, Félix (2007). El cine español durante el franquismo. El sastre de los libros. p. 22. ISBN 978-84-17130-22-0.
  6. ^ "El director Fernando Méndez-Leite, elegido nuevo presidente de la Academia de Cine". HuffPost. 4 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Luisa Gavasa opta a la Academia de cine junto a una técnica, un director y una productora". El Periódico de Aragón. 3 June 2022.
  8. ^ "La Academia de Cine elige como nuevo presidente al crítico y realizador Fernando Méndez-Leite". Cinemanía. 4 June 2022 – via 20minutos.es.
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