Fernando Franco García (born 1976) is a Spanish film editor, director and screenwriter.
Biography
Fernando Franco García was born in
Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
in 1976.
He earned a
licentiate degree
A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels.
It may be similar to a master's degree when issued by pontifical universities and other universities in Europe, Latin Am ...
in audiovisual communication from the
University of Seville
The University of Seville (''Universidad de Sevilla'') is a university in Seville, Spain. Founded under the name of ''Colegio Santa María de Jesús'' in 1505, it has a present student body of over 69.200, and is one of the top-ranked universi ...
and a diploma in film editing from the
ECAM. Already a seasoned
film editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology.
The film edit ...
,
his feature film directorial debut ''
Wounded'' (2013) earned him a
Goya Award for Best New Director
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and a nomination to the
Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay
The Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay (Spanish ''Premio Goya al mejor guión original'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.
For the first two editions of the Goya Awards, only one award for screenplays was p ...
. His debuting directorial efforts were followed by ''
Dying
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Signs of dying ...
'' (2017) and ''
The Rite of Spring
''The Rite of Spring''. Full name: ''The Rite of Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts'' (french: Le Sacre du printemps: tableaux de la Russie païenne en deux parties) (french: Le Sacre du printemps, link=no) is a ballet and orchestral ...
'' (2022).
Accolades
References
Living people
People from Seville
Spanish film editors
21st-century Spanish screenwriters
Spanish film directors
1976 births
University of Seville alumni
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