César Hernando

César Hernando

Birth : , Spain

History

César Hernando had an AFS (American Field Services) scholarship and graduated in Kettering High School. He studied Communication Sciences at the University of Madrid and also graduated in cinematography and editing at I.O.R.T.V.E. (The Official Institute of Spanish National Television). He is also an active member of A.E.C.(Spanish Association of Airectors of Ainematography). He has been working as D.O.P and camera operator for the last 25 years for different public and private national and international channels such as TVE, Canal +, ZDF, Arte, among others. He has worked especially national feature films and in the field of international documentaries. He also works frequently in commercials and combines his photography and operating skills, both in video and cinematographic formats, with teaching at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, he also teaches digital cinematography at Institute of Spanish National Television.

Profile

César Hernando

Movies

A este lado de la carretera: Danza Invisible y la magia de Torremolinos
Color Grading
Torremolinos, province of Málaga, Spain, autumn 1981. In the basement of a pub frequented by foreigners, five young self-taught people found a musical group that in less than a year conquers the charts: Danza Invisible, one of the best bands in the history of Spanish pop music, was born.
A este lado de la carretera: Danza Invisible y la magia de Torremolinos
Director of Photography
Torremolinos, province of Málaga, Spain, autumn 1981. In the basement of a pub frequented by foreigners, five young self-taught people found a musical group that in less than a year conquers the charts: Danza Invisible, one of the best bands in the history of Spanish pop music, was born.
Final Round
Director of Photography
Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends.
Fosforito, una historia de flamenco
Director of Photography
Paraíso en llamas
Director of Photography
A Happy Woman
Director of Photography
Ana leads a very happy life but one day, she begins to suffer strange and inexplicable diseases that will change her entire world...
Conexión Almería
Director of Photography
The Raja's Letter
Director of Photography
Amal is a seven-year-old Indian boy who is orphaned when his father dies and has to move to another part of India with his uncles. Amal integrates quickly and meets the different characters that open a new world for him. But what catches his attention the most is a post office in front of his house. His greatest hope would be to receive a letter from the Raja and become a postman, so he would travel all over India.
Clandestinos
Director of Photography
Xabi, a troubled boy, meets Iñaki, a member of the terrorist gang ETA who becomes his mentor and ideological inspiration. Some time later, Xabi is arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail and confined in a juvenile detention center, where he meets Joel, a Mexican, and Driss, a Moroccan, with whom he manages to flee and reach Madrid with the purpose of finding Iñaki and joining the gang.
Marry Me, Maribel
Camera Operator
Maribel (Natalia Dicenta) is a prostitute working in Madrid in the late fifties. One night he meets Marcelino (Carlos Hipolito), shy and quiet man who falls for her. For Maribel is in principle a client more, but gradually begins to feel attracted to the shy provincial, owner of a chocolate factory in Soria. Pili (Nathalie Seseña), Rufi (Mireia Ros) and Nini (Malena Alterio), the companions of Maribel, truculent by nature suspicious of this relationship and begin to suspect that the provincial could be a murderer. When Maribel Marcelino asks her to marry him, they intervene and away from Marcelino and his "strange family". Adapted from the play "Maribel and the Strange Family" by Miguel Mihura.
Ánimas
Director of Photography
Los Díaz felices
Director of Photography
Every morning, during each breakfast, the Díaz family celebrates by singing of the extreme happiness they enjoy, even on those days that are sinister and stormy.
Zapico
Director of Photography
El sueño de Adán
Cinematography
Adam dreams in a strange paradise. In his dreams a woman appears. Because of her, he manages to wake up and enter the real world.