More than 170 films produced and several series, short films and documentaries.
Founded in 1987 by Gerardo Herrero and Javier López Blanco, with Mariela Besuievsky joining as a partner in 1999.
Their films have won numerous awards, including an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film for “The Secret in Their Eyes” by Juan José Campanella, the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme D’Or for “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” by Ken Loach or the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion for “The Last Circus” by Alex de la Iglesia. In 2019 they received a total of 10 Goya Awards for “The Realm” by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, “A Twelve-Year Night” y “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”. In 2023, the film “Under therapy” by Gerardo Herrero was awarded the Silver Biznaga Special Jury Prize at the Málaga Film Festival.
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His career in series began with “Four Season in Havana” (Platino Award for Best Ibero-American series). The series “Ana Tramel. All in”, a co-production with RTVE, DeAPlaneta and ZDF Enterprises (Germany) was selected for the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. Now available on netflix. In 2024, its series “Detective Touré” was broadcast after participating in the South International Series Festival.
Gerardo Herrero
FILM PRODUCER, SCREENWRITER AND DIRECTOR
He holds both a Law and Political Sciences degrees from the Complutense University of Madrid. He studied film at UC Berkeley in California. He founded Tornasol in 1987 together with Javier López Blanco.
In his long career as a producer he has made 175 fiction feature films and several series and documentaries, winning numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film for “The Secret in Their Eyes” directed by Juan José Campanella or the Palme d’Or for Best Film at Cannes for “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” directed by Ken Loach.
As a director, he has made 20 films between 1994 and 2024. He has competed at the Berlin International Film Festival with “Comanche Territory” or at the San Sebastián Festival with “Frontera Sur” and “The Galíndez File”. He also won the Special Jury Prize at the SEMINCI for “Friends Have Reasons” and, at the Málaga Film Festival, the Golden Biznaga for Best Film for “The Rough Winds” and the Silver Biznaga for Best Director for “Heroine”. In 2023, his film “Under Therapy” won the Silver Biznaga Special Jury Prize and the Platino Award for Best Ibero-American Fiction Comedy. His latest film, “Raqqa”, premiered In 2024.
He has served as president of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and of FAPAE (Spanish Producers Federation). He is also secretary general of FIPCA (Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos). He has been the director of the “Course on Development of Ibero-American Film Projects” since 2003.
Mariela Besuievsky
FILM AND SERIES PRODUCER
A graduate of the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Montevideo (EMAD), she studied film at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión San Antonio de Los Baños en Cuba (EICTV). Her first film as a producer was Pablo Dotta’s debut feature “El dirigible”, the first Uruguayan film to participate in the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1999, Mariela joined Tornasol as a producer. Her credits include more than 150 films as producer and executive producer, among others: “The Secret in Their Eyes” by Juan José Campanella, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, “The Last Circus” (Silver Lion at Venice 2010) and “The Oxford Crimes” by Álex de la Iglesia, “Tetro” by Francis Ford Coppola, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” by Terry Gilliam….
In 2017, the series “Four Seasons in Havana” was awarded the Platino Award for Best Ibero-American miniseries. Between 2019/2021, she served as executive producer on the documentary mini-series “Carmel: Who Killed María Marta” and “The Photographer: Murder in Pinamar” both on Netflix. In 2021, she premiered the series “Ana Tramel. All In” on RTVE and in 2024, the series “Detective Touré” (RTVE, EITB and Netflix).
In addition, she teaches Executive Production courses at ECAM and Carlos III University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asociación Estatal de Cine (AECINE) and the European Producer Club (EPC). She has been a member of the jury of the Short Film Section of the Berlin Film Festival, of the Official Section at San Sebastian Festival and of the Eurimages Award at the Berlinale Co-Production Market, among others.
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