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My Take
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.
Overview
Mariano Barroso (born 26 December 1959) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 20 films since 1982. His 1996 film Éxtasis was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. Since 9 June 2018, he has been the President of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter / film producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.