Joaquín Oristrell Ventura (born 15 September 1953) is a Spanish

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

Biography

Born in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

on 15 September 1953, he is the cousin of actress

Yolanda Ventura Yolanda Ventura (born 21 October 1968, in Barcelona, Spain) is a dual nationality Spanish/Mexican actress and was a Spanish singer when she was young . She is best known for roles in Mexican telenovelas and is a former member of the Spanish chi ...

and nephew of trumpeter . He has written scripts to

Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (born 2 January 1940) is a Spanish screenwriter and film director. His 1973 film '' Habla, mudita'' was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director for '' ...

, Fernando Colomo and other directors before his film debut in 1997 with '' ¿De qué se ríen las mujeres?'' (United States: DVD title, What Makes Women Laugh?).

Selected filmography

Film

Television

*'' Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'' (1982) (script) *''

Cuéntame cómo pasó ' (), usually shortened to ''Cuéntame'' and also known in English as ''Remember When'', is a Spanish prime-time television historical drama series that originally ran on La 1 (Spanish TV channel), La 1 of Televisión Española for twenty-three ...

'' (2016–present) (script) *'' Fugitiva'' (2018) (creator) *'' HIT'' (2020) (creator) *'' La última'' (2022) (creator)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oristrell, Joaquin 1958 births Living people Mass media people from Barcelona Film directors from Catalonia Spanish male screenwriters 21st-century Spanish screenwriters