Rafael Portela

Rafael Portela debuts as a producer in 2005 with the documentary film El productor, which starred Elias Querejeta and was directed by Fernando Mendez-Leite. It was followed by La Silla de Fernando (2006), which starred Fernando Fernán-Gómez and was directed by David Trueba and Luis Alegre. Both documentary films were produced for the TCM channel and nominated for the Goya Award for Best Documentary. Next he also produced for TCM the documentary film La Noche que no Acaba (2010), which was directed by Isaki Lacuesta and screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and for TNT he produced the series Todas las mujeres (2010), directed by Mariano Barroso and starring Eduard Fernández, which was adapted in 2013 for movie theaters and received 4 nominations for the Goya Awards and won a Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. With his audiovisual production company Sentido Films, which he founded in 2010, he produces the films Lo Mejor de Eva (2011), directed by Mariano Barroso, starring Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Leonor Watling, and co-produced by Telecinco Cinema, Murieron por Encima de sus Posibilidades (2015), directed by Isaki Lacuesta and selected in the Official Section (Out of Competition) at the San Sebastian Festival, and The Next Skin (2016), directed by Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta, a film that won a Gaudı́ Award for Best Film of the Year and earned Emma Suárez the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress, among many other honors. In 2018, he produced for Netflix the documentary film Two Catalonias, directed by Álvaro Longoria and Gerardo Olivares. In 2020, he produced for Movistar+ the fiction series La Línea Invisible, directed by Mariano Barroso and starring Alex Monner and Antonio de la Torre. In 2022, he is the executive producer of the fiction series Blackout, created by Buendı́a Estudios for Movistar+ and directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, Alberto Rodrı́guez, and Isaki Lacuesta. For five years (2012-2017), he was the Editorial VP of Paramount Channel, and for nine years (2003-2012), he was the Director of Programming for Turner’s movie channels in Spain TNT and TCM. Since May 2018, he has been Senior Vice President of the Film Academy.