Elio Quiroga Explained

Birth Name:	Elio Quiroga Rodríguez
Birth Place:	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Education:	University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Elio Quiroga Rodríguez is a Spanish filmmaker and writer from the Canary Islands. His work is primarily devoted to the fantasy genre.^[1]

Life and career

Born in Las Palmas, Elio Quiroga Rodríguez studied a degree on informatics from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.^[2] His debut feature film as a director, surreal melodrama Fotos (1996), is considered to have attained cult status.^{[3] [4]} It was followed by The Dark Hour (2006), The Haunting (2009), the documentary The Mystery of the King of Kinema (2015), and La estrategia del pequinés (2019).^[5] He has also directed short films, including Sirena negra, El último minutero (which earned a nomination for the Goya Award for Best Documentary Short Film), and Whence comes the rain.

As a fiction writer, he has penned novels such as Los que sueñan, Niños del sol, Astral and Tiempo sucio.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: El cineasta Elio Quiroga recibe el Premio S. S. Venture del Festival Isla Calavera. Diario de Avisos. El Español. 16 February 2021.
2. Web site: ‘Tiempo sucio’, el futuro distópico de Elio Quiroga se presenta en la Casa-Museo Pérez Galdós. Prensa Ibérica. La Provincia.
3. Web site: Elio Quiroga mezcla terror y leyenda religiosa en «No-Do». Diario de León. 26 December 2006. Mercedes. Cerviño.
4. Web site: A hachazos. El Correo. 14 September 2007. Borja. Crespo. Grupo Vocento.
5. Web site: 'La estrategia del pequinés', Premio al Mejor Largometraje en el Detective Crime Thriller Film Festival. 20minutos.es. 18 April 2020.
6. Web site: El novelista canario Elio Quiroga gana el Premio de Novela Juvenil y de Fantasía Malas Artes. La Provincia. Prensa Ibérica. 1 December 2020.