Mateo Gil Explained

Mateo Gil
Birth Date:	23 September 1972
Birth Place:	Las Palmas, Spain
Nationality:	Spanish
Birth Name:	Mateo Gil Rodríguez
Spouse:	Andrea Antezana
Occupation:	Film director, screenwriter, second unit director, assistant director, cinematographer, editor, producer
Years Active:	1992 – present

Mateo Gil Rodríguez (born 23 September 1972, Las Palmas, Spain) is a Spanish film director,^[1] screenwriter,^[1] second unit director,^[1] assistant director,^[1] cinematographer,^[1] editor and producer.

He co-wrote most of Alejandro Amenábar's films with him, and also served as second unit or assistant director in two of this films. Amenábar's The Sea Inside, which Gil co-wrote, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He was nominated for seven Goya Awards including Best New Director and Best Director, and won four: Best Original Screenplay for The Sea Inside and Agora, Best Adapted Screenplay for The Method and Best Short Film - Fiction for Dime que yo.

Filmography

Year		Title	Director	Writer	Second unit/ assistant director	Notes
1996	Tesis				Also video operator
1997	Open Your Eyes
1999	Nobody Knows Anybody				Also actor as Boy in the bar #2 (uncredited)
1999	La lengua de las mariposas
2004	The Sea Inside
2005	The Method
2009	Agora
2011	Blackthorn
2016	Realive
2018	The Laws of Thermodynamics

Year		Title	Director	Writer	Second unit/ assistant director	Other	Notes
1992	Himenóptero					Cinematographer
1993	Antes del beso
1994	Soñé que te mataba
1995	Luna					Voice actor as Hitchhicker
1998	Allanamiento de morada
2008	Dime que yo					Also producer
2011	Hombre con nube

Year		Title	Director	Writer	Executive producer	Notes
2006	Películas para no dormir: Regreso a Moira				TV film Also editor
2020	Los Favoritos De Midas				Limited series Also creator

Web site: Mateo Gil. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309225159/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/235114/Mateo-Gil/filmography. dead. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2016. 2016-03-09.