León Siminiani

Elías León Siminiani is a Spanish writer, director and producer born in Santander who studied Hispanic Philology in Murcia and film at Columbia University on a Fulbright grant. His short Arquitectura emocional 1959 won the 2023 Goya for Best Fiction Short, and Ludoterapia was named best short at Europa Cinema 2007. The first four parts of his microdocumentary series Conceptos clave del mundo moderno collected more than 50 international awards. His first feature, the documentary Mapa, won Best European Documentary at the Seville European Film Festival in 2012, and he followed it with Apuntes para una película de atracos in 2018.