Alejandro Cortés Calahorra is a film director and member of the Spanish Film Academy. He premiered his films Refugios (Argentina/Spain) and Carrasca (Spain) at international festivals across Europe, Asia, and America, as well as in cinemas, on television, and on streaming platforms. He is currently developing the films Made in 1999 and Perro Viejo.

After studying Direction at the prestigious Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, he specialized in Screenwriting, Documentary, and Animation in Argentina and Spain, and in Series Screenwriting in Cannes, France (Université Côte d’Azur & DFFB Serial Eyes Berlin).

Cortés Calahorra was the only Spanish writer selected for the Cannes Screenwriters’ Residency, Canneseries Unlimited. He was also a finalist in the Spanish Film Academy Residency; an IBERMEDIA Scholarship recipient at LabGuion Colombia; and has been selected for the Torino Film Lab, Iberseries Platino Industria Pitch (HBO Max, Sony, and Dopamine), 20th CIIF Canary Islands Film Market, 65th ZINEBI Networking, IsLABentura Canarias, and the Extremadura and Navarra Cinema Residencies, as well as Serieslab SGAE.

He also served as Director of Research and Documentation for the documentary Heroes: Silence and Rock & Roll (2021), centered on the music band Héroes del Silencio. The film was nominated for both the Goya and Forqué Awards.