Manuel Cristóbal

Birth : 1969-11-27, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

History

Audiovisual Producer. Since 2001 has produced seven feature films for the international market, five of them in animation, and has won three Goya awards in the best animation feature category. In 2006, he created PERRO VERDE FILMS and produced five feature films: The Missing Lynx with Kandor Moon presented by Antonio Banderas, Lost in Galicia with Artematica, The night that stopped raining, Going Nuts with Producciones bajo la lluvia and Wrinkles based in the comic book by Paco Roca and directed by Ignacio Ferreras. In 2010 he launched with Milrayas the App Contoplanet. He is Secretary of the board in CARTOON, member of the board in the Spanish Film Academy, FAPAE and DIBOOS, he is also member of the European Film Academy, the Galician Audiovisual Academy, visiting professor at the Jilin Animation Center in China and teacher at the Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Movies

Dragonkeeper
Producer
In ancient China, dragons were once friends of men, but men’s greed and lust for power ended their alliance, and these wise and magical creatures were hunted down by the Empire. Years later, in a remote fortress, a young slave girl named Ping strikes up an unlikely friendship with Long Danzi, the last of the imperial dragons. Learning the power of Qi, Ping helps the dragon escape from captivity and together they journey across the Empire in order to save his lineage, chased by the Emperor’s men and pursued by even darker powers.
Pandemic Tour Belako
Thanks
Madrid was one of the hardest-hit regions in the world by the pandemic of Covid-19. When the state of alarm was declared in March 2020, awarded filmmaker Hernán Zin grab his camera and went out to portray it from all fronts: hospitals, ambulances, nursing homes, funeral homes, fire department, police and army operations.He got exclusive access to places and situations that few filmmakers in the world had due to the effort of the politicians to keep the press out of the hospitals and nursing homes.
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Producer
Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.
Wrinkles
Producer
At an elder-care facility, a geriatric con artist tries to prevent his new friend with early Alzheimer's symptoms from being transferred to the 'lost causes' floor.
Santiago de sangre
Producer
Vampire Prison stars Eloy Azorín (All About My Mother) as Gabriel, a vampire who has been sentenced to serve time for his sins at Santiago de Compostela, a prison for vampires. He appears to have found a way to avert the rules of his imprisonment and instead continues to indulge in parties and the torture of women but all that changes when he falls for Eva, a woman who isn’t at all what he bargained for.
Midsummer Dream
Executive Producer
Based on William Shakespeare's novel.
The Living Forest
Storyboard Artist
Each day when the humans leave Cecebre Forest, its transforms into a magical place where plants and creatures come alive in wonderful ways. Trouble strikes on the day that men in hard hats plant a long, hard, cold telephone pole in the middle of the forest. The forest is in disarray and Furi, a friendly mole, finds that his friend Linda is missing along with an entire mole colony! The forest creatures join Furi on his quest to find the moles, proving that friendship can overcome any obstacle.
The Living Forest
Production Supervisor
Each day when the humans leave Cecebre Forest, its transforms into a magical place where plants and creatures come alive in wonderful ways. Trouble strikes on the day that men in hard hats plant a long, hard, cold telephone pole in the middle of the forest. The forest is in disarray and Furi, a friendly mole, finds that his friend Linda is missing along with an entire mole colony! The forest creatures join Furi on his quest to find the moles, proving that friendship can overcome any obstacle.
The Living Forest
Executive Producer
Each day when the humans leave Cecebre Forest, its transforms into a magical place where plants and creatures come alive in wonderful ways. Trouble strikes on the day that men in hard hats plant a long, hard, cold telephone pole in the middle of the forest. The forest is in disarray and Furi, a friendly mole, finds that his friend Linda is missing along with an entire mole colony! The forest creatures join Furi on his quest to find the moles, proving that friendship can overcome any obstacle.
Evilio
Assistant Camera
Evilio, a deranged, knife-wielding maniac abducts three pretty young women and drags them to an abandoned building. He tells his bound and helpless captives that he will call their families one by one - if someone answers the phone, that captive will live; if not, a gruesome death awaits.