Manuel Huerga (born 20 October 1957) is a Spanish

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. His film ''

Salvador (Puig Antich) ''Salvador (Puig Antich)'' (or ''Salvador'') is a 2006 film directed by Manuel Huerga. It is based on the 2001 Francesc Escribano book , which depicts the time Salvador Puig Antich spent on death row prior to his execution by garrote (the last ...

'' was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films w ...

section at the

2006 Cannes Film Festival The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official selection Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over t ...

Selected filmography

Film

* ''Brutal Ardour'' (1978; short film) * ''Gaudí'' (1989) * '' Antártida'' (1995) * ''

'' (2006)

Television

* ''Arsenal'' (1985-1987) * ''Operación Malaya'' (2011) * ''14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys'' (2011) * ''Barcelona, la rosa de foc'' (2014) * '' All or Nothing: Manchester City'' (2016; 8 episodes) * ''Nit i dia'' (2016-2017; 15 episodes)

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* 1957 births Living people Spanish film directors Spanish male screenwriters People from Barcelona {{Spain-film-director-stub