Eduard Cortés

Eduard Cortés (born 1959, in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish television and film director and screenwriter. He was twice nominated for the Goya Prize.

Eduard Cortés abandoned his studies in art history to dedicate himself to the world of visual arts, making Super 8 short films and collaborating with the Sunday supplements of El Periódico de Catalunya and El País. In 1984, he began working at Televisió de Catalunya as a producer of music and youth programs, during which time he directed several music videos for artists such as singer Loquillo.

He directed the feature films Nobody's Life, Other Days Will Come, and Ingrid, as well as the television series Oh! Europa, Sitges, La memòria dels Cargols, Psico express, and Les veus del Pamano, among others.

In 2011, he directed Winning Streak starring, among others, Daniel Brühl, Lluís Homar, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, and Blanca Suárez, based on the true story of the García-Pelayo family, who successfully beat casinos worldwide using a legal method based on the imperfections of the roulette game.

In 2015, he directed Cerca de tu casa, a musical film about evictions, featuring Spanish singer-songwriter Sílvia Pérez Cruz, who also composed the songs and the original soundtrack. The film won the Goya Award for Best Song.

Films

Television

Screenwriter