Paco R. Baños
Paco R. Baños (Seville) is a Spanish film and television director and screenwriter.
He has a degree in Information Sciences from the University of Seville, where he coincided with the acclaimed director Alberto Rodríguez.
Baños won the first prize in the Versión Española/SGAE Short Film Contest, with ‘Needs’, in 2004. In 2012, he released his first feature film. ‘Alí’, which was presented at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival, where it won the Asecan award for Best First Film. The film is described as “a fresh story with an indie film atmosphere” and stars Nadia de Santiago and Verónica Forqué.
He has worked as script supervisor in several films and TV series and as assistant director in ‘Marshland’. In television, directed two episodes of the premium TV show ‘The Plague’, in 2017.
In 2019, he premiered ‘522. a cat, a chinese guy and my father’, played by Natalia de Molina, which had its premiere at the Malaga Film Festival.