Mariano Barroso

Barroso is exactly the kind of filmmaker I admire: a working director with more than twenty films and a Berlinale entry, who then took on the unglamorous job of steering an entire industry as president of Spain's film academy. That blend of authorship and institutional stewardship is rare and hard. Spanish cinema's strength has always been its sturdy, human-scaled dramas rather than spectacle, and people like Barroso are the connective tissue holding that tradition together. I respect anyone willing to trade some personal creative time for the thankless work of protecting a whole filmmaking culture.

Name (English)

Mariano Barroso

Name (Japanese)

マリアーノ・バロッソ

Reading

まりあーの・ばろっそ

Born

December 26, 1959 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

Origin

Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona Province, Spain

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film producer

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%BD

Tags

• Barcelona Province
• film director
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.