Pedro Rivero

Professional Experience

Co-writer of the feature film EL HOYO (2019), Award for Best Film and Audience Award at the Sitges Festival, Audience Award in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) and Scuola Holden Award for Best Screenplay at the Toronto Film Festival. Turin. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Goya Awards and for Best Dramatic Film and Best Screenplay at the Feroz Awards. Producer, director and screenwriter of the feature film PSYCONAUTAS, LOS NIÑOS OLIDADOS, winner of the Goya Award for Best Animated Film 2017, winner of 18 international awards, shortlisted for the Oscars and nominated for Best European Animated Film, and of the feature film LA CRISIS CARNIVORA (2007 ), the first Spanish film made in Flash animation for cinemas.

Producer, director and screenwriter of the short film BIRDBOY, Goya Award winner for Best Animated Short Film 2012, awarded with more than 40 awards at national and international festivals and shortlisted for the Oscars, and producer and co-writer of the short film SANGRE DE UNICORNIO, nominated for the Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film 2015, awarded with more than 25 awards.

Scriptwriter for several animated series for television and the feature film GOOMER (1999), Goya Award for Best Animated Film. Artistic Director of ANIMAKOM FEST – Bilbao International Animated Film Festival. President of the Professional Association of Basque Screenwriters between 2002 and 2008.

Film script teacher at various academies in Bizkaia, currently at Anima Eskola, the Kunsthal Higher School of Design and author of comics and theater texts.