Frida Torresblanco

Academy member and PGA member Frida Torresblanco is an Award-winning producer who began her career by studying Film and Literature in Madrid. In 2010, Ms. Torresblanco, as CEO and founding partner along with Eric Lauder and Giovanna Randall, launched her new film production company, Braven Films. The company aims to be a space for filmmakers to freely create universal, contemporary, intelligent movies that will appeal to large audiences with a unique voice. Ms. Torresblanco is the President and CEO of Braven Films as well as the producer behind all of Braven's material. In development is a slate of films including Crooked Heart in partnership with Rachel Weisz, Satan is Real starring Ethan Hawke (Training Day) and Alessandro Nivola, Stolen Girl to be directed by James Kent (The Aftermath) and Visceral, a thriller directed by Federic Jardin (Sleepless Night, Spiral) from a script by Stephen Prentice, co-produced with Marco Cherqui (A Prophet). TV projects include Galileo to be directed by John Curran (Chappaquiddick, The Painted Veil), produced with Karen Tenkhott and Todd Labarowski, and Old Baggage, produced with BBC, Christine Langan, Joanna Scanlan, and Vicki Pepperdine. In pre-production is Alejandro Ortiz directed by Joe Sange and starring Robert Sheehan (Umbrella Academy), Ron Perlman (Hellboy) and Sofia Boutella (Star Trek Beyond). Braven recently produced Disobedience (2017), an adaption from the original novel of Naomi Alderman, written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Sebastian Leilo who directed it (Gloria, Una Mejer Fantastica), starring Rachel Weisz (The Favourite), Rachel McAdams (Spotlight) and Alessandro Nivola (American Hustle) and produced in conjunction with Film4, Film Nation and Ed Guiney (Room). Magic Magic (2013), produced by Frida Torresblanco through Braven Films is a tense psychological thriller written and directed by Chilean Sebastian Silva whose film The Maid (La Nana) won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for a Golden Globe. The film stars Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning and Catalina Sandino Moreno. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 and screened in that year's Director's Fortnight at Cannes. Ms. Torresblanco moved to New York City in 2002 to launch, in partnership with Alfonso Cuarón, a film production company. As head of Esperanto, Frida served as Executive Producer and Creative On-Set Producer for the films The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), directed by Niels Mueller and starring Sean Penn, Duck Season (2004), Year of the Nail (2007), and Cronicas (2004), directed by Sebastiaán Cordero and starring John Leguizamo. In 2006, culminating eight years of partnership and countless hours spent shoulder-to-shoulder, Frida produced with Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro Pan's Labyrinth (2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro, a production which was graced with three Oscars and another three nominations at the 79th Academy Awards, as well as three wins and five nominations at the BAFTAs, a nomination from the Palm d'Or, and a Golden Globe. Ms. Torresblanco subsequently completed production on a documentary directed by Alfonso Cuarón entitled The Possibility of Hope (2007), which includes interviews with Naomi Klein, James Lovelock, Tzvetan Todorov, and Slavoj Zizek amongst others. The following year, in a continuation of the awards whirlwind, The Hollywood Reporter named Ms. Torresblanco one of the 50 most powerful Latinos in Hollywood and placed her as number 13 on their Hispanic Women Power 25 List. Ms. Torresblanco produced Rudo y Cursi (2008) directed by Carlos Cuaroón and starring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to be one of the highest-grossing films in Mexican history. While still in Spain, Ms. Torresblanco acted as Production Coordinator and Line Producer on several films and documentaries, including Javier Rioyo and José Luis López Linares' Buñel (2000). She produced Storm the Skies: The Death of Leon Trotski (1997). Ms. Torresblanco was the head of many international productions to the Spanish mini studio Lolafilms for the next five years, including The Dancer Upstairs (2002), directed by John Malkovich and starring Javier Bardem as well as Susan Seidelman's Gaudi Afternoon (2001), starring Marcia Gay Harden, on which she served as a producer. Ms. Torresblanco was additionally responsible for the production design, pre-production and sales of Lolafilm's international English-language productions including Rain (2001), directed by Katherine Lindberg, Off Key (2001) directed by Manual Gómez Pereira, and The Girl from Rió (2001), directed by Christopher Monger.