Gerardo Olivares

Gerardo Olivares (born 1964) is a Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter. He is married with two children and lives in Madrid. He was the first Spanish man to win the Golden Spike at the prestigious Seminci film festival in Valladolid for his film "14 kilómetros". He received the 2019 Cinema for Peace Award for Justice for his film 'Two Catalonias.'

Travels

A tireless traveler, Olivares began to travel the world in 1987 while studying Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. At the age of twenty he borrowed a Vespa motorcycle from his brother and for four months traveled in the North Cape in Lapland, where he did his first reportage on the nomads who live beyond the Arctic Circle. Back in Madrid, the report was published in Los Aventureros (The Adventurer). Months later he started working under the direction of the journalist and writer Enrique Meneses, whom he has always considered his master.

In 2006 he wrote and directed 14 kilómetros, a film about the plight of African immigration that has won over 15 international awards, affirming him as one of the most committed filmmakers in the panorama of Spanish cinema.

Filmography A partial list of films: Year Film Notes1992 La ruta de las Córdobas (Route of Cordoba) 1994 La ruta de los exploradores (The Path of the Explorers) 1997 La ruta de Samarkanda (Road of Samarkand) 1999 Moradores del Himalaya (Dwellers of the Himalayas) La Cinquieme & RAI2000 Herederos de Gengis Kan (Heirs of Genghis Khan) 2000 Fantasmas de Sulawesi (Ghosts of Sulawesi) 2000 Los hijos del jaguar (Sons of the Jaguar) Canal Plus and TVE2001 El desierto de los esqueletos (The Desert of the Skeletons) Canal Plus and TVE2001 Mekong, el río de los nueve dragones (Mekong, The River of the Nine Dragons) Canal Plus and TVE2001 Una nube sobre Bhopal (A cloud over Bhopal) TVE and Tele Piú2002 Tibet, libertad en el exilio (Tibet, Freedom in Exile) Canal Plus and TVE2002 Herederos de la tierra (Heirs of the Earth) Miniseries2002 El hambre en el mundo explicada a mi hijo (Hunger in the World Explained to my Son) 2003 Bajo la sombra de los Annapurnas (Under the Shadow of Annapurna) 2004 Caravana (Caravan) Produced by Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo for TVE El tercer planeta (The Third Planet) Director of filming. National Geographic Últimos paraísos (Last Paradises) Director of filming. Discovery Channel Supervivientes del planeta (Planet Survivors) Director of filming. Canal Plus2006 La gran final (The Great Match) 2007 14 kilómetros (14 km) 2007 Somalia, un mundo aparte (Somalia, a World Apart) 2007 Cazadores (Hunter) 2007 Bazares de Oriente (Bazaars of the East) 2010 Entrelobos (Among Wolves) 500,000 viewers: Sixth highest grossing Spanish film of 2010. Aliados del Aire TVE2015 Hermanos del viento (Brothers of the Wind) 2nd film in the trilogy Among Wolves/Brothers of the Wind/The Lighthouse of the Whales2016 El faro de las orcas (The Lighthouse of the Orcas) 3rd film in the trilogy Among Wolves/Brothers of the Wind/The Lighthouse of the Whales