The author of titles such as Lisboa (Lisbon) or El menor de los males (The Lesser Evil) finished high school at the San José de Calasanz school in Salamanca, and at 18 years he began taking his first steps with a super 8 mm movie camera. After moving to Madrid, he studied at the newly created Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University. There he creates the film production company Micra Film together with several classmates. Within that company he wrote and directed his first short film, Soldado (Soldier) (1975). Together with his brother, Avelino Hernandez, he produced two more short films, El arca de Noé (Noah’s Ark) and Gustavo y la modelo (Gustavo And The Model), and finally in 1979 they wrote and produced F.E.N., his directorial debut, which was included in the Berlin Festival and other contests around the world. After his second feature film, Apaga… y vámonos (1981), he diversifies his professional activity and works both in radio and in filmmaking and television, making documentaries and advertisements. Ten years later, Jorge Martinez Reverte and Mario Onaindia entrust him with the direction of Cómo levantar 1.000 kilos (How To Lift 1,000 Kilos), an adaptation of the novel by the former entitled Gálvez en Euskadi.
He then combined work as a dubbing director and advertising director until he began his collaboration with the film production company Zeppelin TV, for which he wrote and directed entertainment and fiction shows for more than eight years. In 1999 he directed and co-wrote the feature film Lisboa, which granted Carmen Maura a nomination for the Goya Award for Best Actress and Sergi López the Biznaga for Best Actor at the Malaga Festival. In 2000 he participated in the creation of Zebra Producciones, with which he wrote and directed three feature films: El gran marciano (The great Martian) (2001), En la ciudad sin límites (2002) and Oculto (Hidden) (2005). En la ciudad sin límites, which was included in the Spanish Cinema section of the 47th Seminci, was selected in Panorama of the Berlinale, and it also got five nominations in the Goya, including Best Director and Best Film. Eventually, the film won the statuettes in the category of Best Original Screenplay for Antonio Hernández and Enrique Brasó, and Best Secondary Actress for Geraldine Chaplin. In 2006, he directed the TV show Los Borgia for Antena 3. A year later, he directed the feature film El menor de los males, starring Verónica Echegui and Sergi Lopez, both awarded at the Malaga Festival. Días sin luz (Lightless Days) (2009), Tarancón, el quinto mandamiento (Tarancon, the fifth commandment) (2010), Sofía (2011), Hoy quiero confesar (Today I want to confess) (2011), Capitán Trueno y el Santo Grial (Captain Thunder and the Holy Grail) (2011), La Fuga (The Getaway) (2012), Gran Reserva (2013), Gran Reserva, el origen (2013) and Seis hermanas (Six Sisters) (2015) are the titles of television shows and miniseries that he directed until Matar el tiempo (Killing Time) (2015). Since 2016, he collaborates with Bambú film production company in the direction of TV shows Traición (Betrayal) and Las chicas del cable (Cable Girls).
Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
