Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born December 4, 1965) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and former comic book artist.
Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status due to their weird sense of humour.
Álex de la Iglesia was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1965. He is a philosophy graduate from the University of Deusto who ended up working in the comic book field at a young age. He had a brief stint in television before ...
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Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born December 4, 1965) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and former comic book artist.
Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status due to their weird sense of humour.
Álex de la Iglesia was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1965. He is a philosophy graduate from the University of Deusto who ended up working in the comic book field at a young age. He had a brief stint in television before finding work as production designer on Pablo Berger's Mamá. This little seen short film focuses on a family forced to live in a basement after a nuclear war and features a little boy who wears a Batman costume.
Enrique Urbizu came calling for his production designer services in 1991 for Todo por la pasta (Anything for money), a Basque crime thriller which was nominated for 4 Goya Awards, and won 1 (best supporting actress). A good film to get De La Iglesia noticed.
He then met José Guerricaechevarria and together they made the short film,...
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