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CinemaAna AmigoShe has been working in the cinema with major groups such as Prisa-Sogecable and Warner Bros, and independently from her production company Amigo Films, for thirty years.In 1997 she was awarded one of the eight Fastlane grants, out of more than 600 European aspirants, to study Polygram’s master’s course in Production in London and Los Angeles.She has directed the department of Spanish and foreign acquisitions at Sogepaq, the largest rights distribu- tor in Spain, as well as the depart- ment of international co-produc- tions at Sogecine. She also set up Warner Bros’ local productiondivision. She has been involved in films by directors such as Walter Salles, Isabel Coixet, Julio Médem, Benito Zambrano, Agustín Díaz Yánes, Imanol Uribe, Montxo Armendáriz, Manuel Gómez Pereira, Chapero-Jackson, Emilio Martinez Lázaro and Alejandro Amenábar.She has been a European consultant of the Media II Programme and of the ‘Ateliers du Cinema Européen’ programme, as well as serving on the experts’ committee of the ICAA (Spain) and also on that of the CNACC (Colombia) for the award of production grants. She has been a member of the jury for the Ondas awards and the National Cinema awards of the Ministry of Culture. And she has served on the governing board of the Spanish Film Academy since 2012.38Results ‘14