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Producer and director born in Barcelona in 1949. He followed a professional career in the advertising sector to be then able to work in film production through his own company, Eddie Saeta S.A. from 1995 onwards. He was film critic for Destino and Dirigido por and cofounder of the Arts & Mirador film clubs.
Miñarro has helped to consolidate the prestige of new filmmakers and he has made a firm commitment to promoting art-house cinema. The feature films that he has produced have represented Spain at the most prestigious international festivals: Cannes, Venice, Berlin, San Sebastian, Locarno, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, New York, Buenos Aires, and Shanghai. His productions to date have been: Cosas que nunca te dije (Isabel Coixet, 1996), Fuente Álamo. La caricia del tiempo (Pablo García, 2001), Les mans buides (Las manos vacías) (Marc Recha, 2003), Ar meno un quejío (Fernando de France, 2005), Honor de Cavalleria (Albert Serra, 2006), La silla (Julio D. Wallovits, 2006), Bolboreta, Mariposa, Papallona (Pablo García, 2007), La cáscara (Carlos Ameglio, 2007), En la ciudad de Sylvia (José Luis Guerin, 2007), Escuchando a Gabriel (José Enrique March, 2007), El cant dels ocells (Albert Serra, 2008), Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso, 2008), El somni (The Dream) (Christophe Farnarier, 2008) and El brau blau (The Blue Bull) (Daniel Villamediana, 2008).
His coming films, currently at different stages of the production process, are José María de Orbe's Aita, Manoel de Oliveira's O estranho caso de Angélica and Agustí Vila's La mosquitera.
A tireless traveller, he has co-produced work with Argentina and Uruguay and he has been a juror at the l’Alternativa festivals in Barcelona and the 9th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Festival. He has also taken part as a speaker at the Pompeu Fabra, Ramon Llull, Blanquerna, and Autonomous Universities in Barcelona, The Film Library of the Valencian Autonomous Government and the Observatori de l’Audiovisual, among others. The Paris Festival recently screened a retrospective of his work.
In addition to his work as a producer, he is the director of Familystrip (2009), presented at Karlovy Vary and to be screened as part of Made in Spain at this year's San Sebastian Festival, and Blow Horn (2009), presented at Locarno.
He is currently a member of the European Film Academy, the Spanish Academy of Film Arts and Sciences and the Catalan Association of Film Producers, among other associations.
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