Fernando Méndez-Leite Serrano (born 6 May 1944) is a Spanish film critic, lecturer and filmmaker. He has also worked in theatre and television. He became the president of the

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in 2022.

Biography

Fernando Méndez-Leite Serrano was born in

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on 6 May 1944, son to , a falangist film writer, author of a ''History of the Spanish Cinema''. He studied filmmaking at the for two years after graduating in law from the University of Madrid in 1968. He has been active as a film critic since 1966, writing for publications such as ', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Guía del Ocio de Madrid'', and, from 1968 to 1981, as a lecturer on Film Theory and History of Contemporary Cinema at the

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. Among other institutional and academic positions, he has helmed the ICAA (1986–1988), the ECAM (1994–2012), and, since 2022, the

. A member of the

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's managing committee since its inception, he was worked as a film festival programmer and as a liaison with the press there. He has had one daughter with her partner

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: actress and acting teacher Clara Méndez-Leite.

Filmography

* ' (1980; debut feature) * ''El productor'' (2006) (documentary) * ''Ay Carmen'' (2018) (documentary)

Books

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References

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