Get the latest gossip
‘The Gardener’ Producer José Manuel Lorenzo Set for Conecta Fiction Honorary Award
As a top TV exec or creative producer, Lorenzo’s career straddles the near entirety of Spain’s modern TV.
Now President and founder of the DLO Producciones, a Banijay company, Lorenzo is indeed one of Spain’s few still jobbing industry figures whose career practically straddles the entirety of modern Spanish TV, bowed by belated deregulation over 1989-90 which saw the launch of networks Antena 3 and Mediaset’s Telecinco and payTV channel Canal+ España. Over these years, Lorenzo has made highly ambitious films which didn’t find box office traction (Agustín Díaz Yanes’ “Solo Quiero Caminar”) and the hugely popular pioneering modern musical “Hoy no me puedo levantar” which was not a big payday. An espionage thriller, it charted a woman’s emotional and political odyssey from the Spanish Civil War, Stalin’s 1938 Moscow elite purges through to Mussolini’s Italy, Athens under crumbling Nazi rule to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, as she battles traditional gender roles and totalitarianism.
Or read this on Variety