Maria Gustafsson (writer)

Acting

Gustafsson's early career as a model and actress culminated with the popular Spanish quiz show, Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez in 1972 and 1973.^[4][3] She also had minor roles in several films in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Television production

After studying TV Direction and Production at New York University Gustafsson worked on Barrio Sésamo, the Spanish co-production of Sesame Street, and was the International Coordinator of 3, 2, 1 Contact,^[5] both coproduced with Children's Television Workshop.^{[citation needed]} She was a screenwriter for Lápices de Colores (1986)^[3] and Dinamo (1986),^[3][6] a youth TV program showing pop/rock musicians doing extreme sports, broadcast by TVE.^{[citation needed]} Later, she became Program Director at Canal 10, the first private TV channel in Spain.^[3]

As Manager and Executive Producer at The Missing Piece, she produced the long-running series Apaños and Viejos oficios for the different autonomous TV channels in Spain and co-produced the youth series Torch with BBC and Czechoslovak TV, and Griot, a documentary series shot entirely in Senegal and the Ivory Coast.^{[citation needed]}