Director of horror films, now cult, as Who can kill a child? and The residence, or series of Stories to not sleep, and very popular thanks to being the creator of one of the competitions most famous in the history of television in Spain, One two three, Narciso Chicho Ibáñez Serrador (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1935) will be in the next ceremony of the Goya Award , the 33rd edition, the honorary Award, has announced this Tuesday, the Academy of Cinema. Ibáñez Serrador has earned the award “for opening the way to a whole generation of Spanish film makers and its outstanding contribution” to the movies of terror and fantastic, has highlighted the institution in a press release.
in Addition to filmmaker, Chicho, as it is known, always with a cigar in hand, has been a filmmaker, tv writer, theatre director and actor. A “creator of nightmares unique and original” that has influenced Spanish directors “as Juan Antonio Bayona, Rodrigo Cortés, Alejandro Amenábar, Álex de la Iglesia, Jaume Balagueró, Mateo Gil, Enrique Urbizu and Paco Plaza, among others”, adds the Academy. Along the five last developed in 2006 Films to keep you awake, a series of six films from horror to television, he directed The blame.
the only Child of the couple of actors Narciso Ibáñez Menta and Pepita Serrador, raised from tours and scenarios. Due to a disease that he suffered as a child he became an avid reader. Betpas In the years fifty of the past century, as in Spain, he worked as an actor in the theater company of his mother and, shortly after, began in the theatre. In 1957, he returned to Argentina and, together with his father, he started a successful collaboration in theatre, radio and television. Ibáñez Serrador diversified, as an actor, director and screenwriter in the argentine television, signing many times their texts under the pseudonym Luis Peñafiel.
The theatre was his “school, university and ancestors”, he said, but he found that the direction and the writing attracted him more than the action, becoming what he called an “author addresses” or “author”.
back to Spain, in 1963, he began working for Spanish Television, where he helped to modernize the medium with series such as Tomorrow, it may be true, or The story of Saint Michel, but especially with their horror Stories (1966), which included previews that stood out for their humor. These productions are added to titles such as The last clock, The asphalt, Stories of frivolity and tv (1974). In the film, its well-known titles in the genre of fantastic cinema and terror, they are The residence (1969) and Who can kill a child? (1976), of which he was a screenwriter and director.
In his career also included novels, radio and theatre plays, as Approved in chastity, The pinhole and The eagle and the fog. In 1970, he founded the production company Prointel, from which sprang the legendary television program A two, three.
In 2010, he was awarded the National Prize of Television, which adds to other awards: the Prize Master on the great Festival Night, the Waves, the Best Program for let’s Talk about sex, awards, Antenna Gold, Award and Iris Award Fierce Honor.
