I met Félix when he came home to shoot a scene of the film María y yo, and later, in a long ellipsis, we met again at Gallardo's house, a few days before his death. Our relationship therefore turns around our friendship with Miguel Gallardo and we talked about him for a long time, with deep longing and feeling, and about María y yo, of course. As a good filmmaker, Felix likes to explain things in detail, and when he talks about his film, he also adds a lot of passion. You can tell he loves his work.
At the end of the session we discovered that when we were kids we went to the same school, a few years apart, sharing teachers and similar experiences. And in case there were any doubts, seeing the photograph of Martin Parr that he has hanging in the studio, and afterwards when he tells me that yes, the beautiful Triumph on the street is indeed his, we have just connected completely.
Born in 1963, Félix Fernández de Castro has spent most of his life working in advertising.
First, as a creative in different agencies in Barcelona, where he has held all positions, from junior copywriter in the first one to creative director and founding partner in the last one, SCPF...
And then, more than two decades ago, as a filmmaker. Since 2017, at his own production company, Blank films. On both sides of the camera, his work has been recognized with almost all the advertising awards that exist.
In 2010 he shot the film María y yo, a film adaptation of Miguel Gallardo's graphic novel of the same title.
He has two and a half children, two dogs and two cats, with whom he lives intermittently in a house in the mountains of Collserola, north of Barcelona. He likes cooking, baking bread, and if he had not been a director, he would have loved to be a musician or a carpenter.