Writing

Fernando Cortizo

Place of birth

Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Known for

Writing

Credits

5 titles

IMDb profile

Fernando Cortizo Rodríguez, born in 1973 in Santiago de Compostela, is a Galician director and screenwriter. After practicing for a time as a veterinarian, he became interested in real-image cinema, and made two real-image short films, before moving on to stop-motion animation with the short film Black Cat Spantat. After this first experience, in 2007 he created Artefacto Producciones, where he made O Boiro, O Ladrón de Dollecas, Leo, Sombras na noite and Promesa. In 2009, he began the production of his first feature film, The Apostle, being the first European film in stereoscopic stop motion. For the project, he managed to involve technicians from the biggest world productions, as well as …

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A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.

The Apostle

2012

Bernard, a veteran cryptozoologist who has spent all his life searching for cryptid creatures, has the chance to hunt one of this greatest challenges, the Mosquifant. After travelling to a distant island in the North Sea, he will live an adventure full of difficulties and surprises.