Fernando Navarrete receives the Panorama Award for a Lifetime Achievement

The president of the Television Academy, Manuel Campo Vidal, was in charge together with the actress Concha Velasco of presenting this recognition to the veteran director.

The director and filmmaker Fernando Navarrete, received last night, during the ceremony of the Panorama Awards presented by the academic Patricia Betancort, the Lifetime Achievement Award granted by Panorama Audiovisual.

The award recognises a career of more than fifty years linked to the history of television in Spain, where he has been an innovator in the use of technology, language and formats.

The president of the Television Academy, Manuel Campo Vidal, was in charge together with the actress Concha Velasco of presenting this recognition to the veteran filmmaker within the framework of BIT Audiovisual 2018.

In his speech, Campo-Vidal compared television pioneers like Navarrete to astronauts exploring new paths in what he called the "mythical generation of television." For her part, Concha Velasco, in one of the most emotional moments of the ceremony, said "Fernando Navarrete, I am what I am on television... thanks to you."

In his gratitude, Navarrete, who serves as vice-president of the Tv Academy, reviewed the evolution of television and how those like him in the 70s and 80s produced programs that millions of viewers followed in an artisanal way and with rudimentary technology. He also recalled how the first electoral debate organized by the Television Academy was conceived when veterans of the medium managed to get all the political parties to agree to organize an event of this magnitude in just three weeks.

Navarrete also wanted to point out that despite the diversity of screens on which we can watch television today as well as the advanced technology that we have today in production, content with information, entertainment and spectacle continues to reign.

During the presentation of this award, there was an emotional remembrance for the journalist and academic José María Iñigo, a television legend who died in Madrid last Saturday and who together with Navarrete formed a unique tandem in the production of mythical programs such as Open Studio, Very direct or Tonight, Party….

Fernando Navarrete Porta

He studied Chemical Sciences at the University of Madrid. He worked as a Glass Chemist at FEVIHSA until 1966 when he attended the III Production Course organized by the TVE Training Service, where he obtained number 1 in that promotion and was graduated on June 30, 1966 by the General Director of Radio and Television. Broadcasting technician, Specialist in Broadcasts and Production Graduated by the Ministry of Information and Tourism in 1973.

Throughout his professional career he has worked as a producer for Spanish Television from 1967 to 1989, when he requested a leave of absence to work in the private sector. He founded the production company P.N.N., S.A. of which he is president and director. He has produced and made programs, outside the public broadcaster, in Japan (Nippon Television), Brazil (Educational Television), France (Radio Television of Monte Carlo), Argentina (Channel 7), Sweden, Denmark, Cuba, USA, Antena 3 TV, Televisión de Galicia, Canal Sur Televisión and Telecinco.

Some of the programs he has directed and carried out throughout his professional career are: Open Studio, Directism, Fantastic (Magazines), The Second Chance (Road Safety) Encuentro en libertad (Economy), Tonight party, Superstar (Musicals), Pencil and paper (Children), Here Spain (Labor), Today 14:15 (Informative), Festival O.T.I., Experience the show (Musical), That's life (Informative), Rage (Entertainment), Deal (Entertainment), Audacity (Competition), Petra's Revenge (Theatre), Anacleto divorces (Theatre), Super Show (Entertainment), Moranquíssimo, Morancos, Channel Nº5 (Entertainment). As well as end-of-year programs and electoral specials.

President of (A.R.T.) Association of Television Producers and member of the Board of Trustees of the Audiovisual Foundation for Social Normalization (FANS). Member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts since September 2006, in 2010 he was appointed vice-president of the Institution.

In 2008 he negotiated and co-directed the Electoral Debates between José Luis R. Zapatero and Mariano Rajoy. In 2011 the Debate between Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and Mariano Rajoy. In 2015 the Face to Face between Pedro Sánchez and Mariano Rajoy and in 2016 the Debate between Mariano Rajoy, Pedro Sánchez, Albert Rivera and Pablo Iglesias. He also has a Diploma in Advanced Studies of National Defense.