Early life Fresnadillo was born in
Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canary Islands. In 1977, at the age of nine, he witnessed the aftermath of the
Tenerife airport disaster, which in part inspired his 2001 film
Intacto. In 1985, Fresnadillo moved to
Madrid.
Movie career He started out in photography and cinema studies and then began his career in short films. In 1987, he set up a production company which produced several short films and commercials. Fresnadillo went on to become a production assistant for
Gustavo Fuertes' short film
El juicio final (1991) (U.S. title
The Final Judgement). In 1996, he made his directorial debut with the black-and-white short film
Esposados (U.S. title:
Linked), for which he was also the executive producer. This black comedy tells the story of a couple who are constantly fighting over money; when they find themselves winning the Christmas lottery, however, they have such different ideas about what to do next that the husband tries to get rid of his wife.
Esposados won 40 national and international awards. In October 2011, news broke that Fresnadillo was no longer attached to
the Crow remake. On 25 August 2014,
Variety reported that Fresnadillo was in talks to develop and possibly direct a thriller titled
The Last Witness about the lone survivor of a bomb attack in Boston. In November 2020, he was attached to direct the
Millie Bobby Brown film
Damsel. ==Filmography==