Oriol Porta  (Lleida, 1959) currently alternates his work as producer and director with teaching. He gives classes on documentary production and project development at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona as well as at ESCAC, in Terrassa. He began his professional career as a producer of corporate videos, TV advertisements and television programs. During the 1992 Olympics he was in charge of production services for foreign broadcasters at the television news agency, EditMedia. His passion for audiovisual creation led him to set up his own production company, Àrea de Televisió, in 1993. He also produced news and sports reports, documentaries and reports (Nicaragua: demasiadas incógnitas (1994); Diary from Serbia (1994); Ciudadanos bajo Sospecha (1995)), produced TV ads and corporate videos. In 2000 he began specializing in the production of internationally co-produced documentaries. Since then, he has been the Lead Executive Producer of several documentaries: Francisco Boix: a Photographer in Hell (2000), Argentina: 4 Faces of a Bottomless Country,  (2002), aired in Spain, Portugal and Ireland; Viure la música. Escolans de Montserrat or  Orwell; Against the Tide  (2003), etc. A War in Hollywood (2008) -2^nd Award in the Section “History’s Time” in the 53 Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid (Spain)- is his first experience as a feature film director, where he decided to unite his passion for film with his interest in historical and political topics.