Rafael Cobos
Rafael Cobos (Seville) Playwright, television and film screen and fiction writer, winner of two Goya Awards.
Rafael Cobos studied Medicine and Law before beginning his studies in Audiovisual Communication and Stage Direction at the University of Seville. He is mainly known for his screenplays for cinema and especially fruitful has been his collaboration with director Alberto Rodríguez, a University classmate and with whom he has co-written the screenplays of almost all his films and with whom he has won two Goya Awards in 2015 for Marshland (Best Original Screenplay) and for Smoke and Mirrors (Best Adapted Screenplay) in 2017.
As screenwriter of other previous films such as 7 Virgins (2005), After (2009) and Unit 7 (2012), he was nominated for all of them for Best Original Screenplay at the Goya Awards.
Other works include: Ali, Love is not what it used to be, Toro, Nous, and Me, my wife and my dead wife.
For Marshland, he received the following awards for Best Original Screenplay: Goya, Film Screenwriters Circle and Andalusian Film Asecan. He also received the following nominations: Feroz, Platino and Fénix.
In 2019, he was awarded the Ricardo Franco Award, granted by the Spanish Film Academy.
With his latest work as a screenwriter, Prison 77, he is nominated for the Goya, Forqué, Carmen, Feroz and Asecan Awards.
He teaches screenwriting workshops at the University of Seville and at different film schools.
1. Prison 77 (2022) – screenwriter
2.The Plague, Season 2 (2019) – showrunner, creador, screenwriter
3. Me, my wife and my dead wife (2019) – screenwriter
4. The Plague, Season 1 (2017) – creator and screenwriter
5. Smoke and Mirrors (2016) – screenwriter
6. Toro (2016) – screenwriter
7. Marshland (2014) – screenwriter
8. Love is not what it used to be (2013) – screenwriter
9. Ali (2012) – screenwriter
10. Unit 7 (2012) – screenwriter
11. After (2009) – screenwriter
12. 7 Virgins (2005) – screenwriter