Elio Quiroga
Spanish film director and screenwriter
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Elio Quiroga Rodríguez is a Spanish filmmaker and writer from the Canary Islands. His work is primarily devoted to the fantasy genre.[1]
- Writer
- screenwriter
- film director
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Quiroga in 2019 by Óscar Fernández Orengo | |
| Born | Elio Quiroga Rodríguez Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Education | University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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Life and career
Born in Las Palmas, Elio Quiroga Rodríguez earned a degree in informatics from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.[2][3] His debut feature film as a director, surreal melodrama Fotos (1996), is considered to have attained cult status.[4][5] It was followed by The Dark Hour (2006), The Haunting (2009), the documentary The Mystery of the King of Kinema (2015), and La estrategia del pequinés (2019).[3][2] He has also directed short films, including Sirena negra, El último minutero (which earned a nomination for the Goya Award for Best Documentary Short Film), and Whence comes the rain.[1]
As a fiction writer, he has penned novels such as Los que sueñan, Niños del sol, Astral and Tiempo sucio.[6][3]
