OSCAR ALONSO

Head of Acquisitions & Festivals

Latido Films (Spain)

Biography

Oscar Alonso earned a Degree in Business Administration at the Autonomous University of Madrid, a Master’s degree in Cinema and Television Production at the Complutense University of Madrid and coursed the USC/Universal Studios Producing and Directing Programme at the University of Southern California.

Starting in Film & TV Production, most of his career happened in Latido Films, an international sales agency that focuses

mainly on Spanish language titles. Latido Films collaborate with both prestigious filmmakers (Oscar winning Juan Jose Campanella‘s THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES and legendary director Carlos Saura‘s FADOS), established directors (Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat‘s multiawarded THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN and Javier Fesser‘s box office hit CHAMPIONS) and rising talents like Oscar nominated Rodrigo Sorogoyen (THE REALM)

 

 

He was appointed on 2019 as Head of Acquisitions, being his first pickup THE PLATFORM by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (Grolsch People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award at Toronto International Film Festival and the most watched non-English language film ever on Netflix and 9th overall).