Diego Galán

Diego Galán Fernández (13 October 1946 – 15 April 2019) was a Spanish film critic, journalist, film historian, and filmmaker. He served as director of the San Sebastián International Film Festival from 1986 to 1989 and from 1995 to 2000.

Life and career Diego Galán Fernández was born on 13 October 1946 in Tangier, where he was raised until moving to Madrid at age 19. He worked as an administrator and accountant. Beginning in 1967, he began to write film criticism for Nuestro cine and then Triunfo and El País.

Focusing on documentary filmmaking, he directed works such as Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones (2005), Con la pata quebrada (2013) and Manda huevos (2016). In 2018, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Spanish Film Academy.