Pablo Isla (former president of Inditex) founds Fonte Films

The former president of Inditex, Pablo Isla, has joined Goya winner Carla Pérez and lawyer María Jesús Román to shape a new audiovisual production company called Fonte Films.

The new production company Fonte Films It starts with multiple and ambitious objectives: Develop projects of high technical quality with a global vocation, to bet on New forms of audiovisual expression and transmit support and confidence to all the teams involved in an efficient management framework. At the same time, the initiative of Isla, Pérez and Román seeks to be an "incubator of new national and international talent", which will serve to "pamper emerging creativity and promote agreements with other countries".

Pablo Isla, who will hold the position of producer and president at Fonte Films, has a degree in Law and is a State Lawyer. He was general director of State Heritage, Secretary General at the Banco Popular Español and co-president of the Altadis Group. In 2005 he joined the Inditex Group as vice-chairman and CEO and in 2011 he assumed the presidency of the company until March 2022. Currently, Isla is also a member of the board of directors of Nestlé, Global Senior Advisor of General Atlantic and president of the International Advisory Council of IE University. It is also part of first-rate cultural institutions such as the Board of Trustees of the Prado Museum, the Royal Theatre of Madrid and the La Caixa Foundationamong others.

Isla says he is very "excited" about the creation of Fonte Films, to which he will contribute his "business experience to the audiovisual world" thus contributing "to the development of the thriving Spanish audiovisual industry".

Carla Pérez de Albéniz, María Jesús Román and Diego Sotelo

Island You will be accompanied on this adventure by Carla Pérez de Albéniz, who will serve as executive producer at Fonte Films, has been working in the audiovisual sector for 25 years. He has worked in Several Spanish production companies as a production director, and carried out her work mainly in Spain, as well as in the United Kingdom, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil and Mexico. In the last three years, Pérez de Albéniz has been head of the production department of the Movistar Plus+ Originals area. Among the recognitions he has received, the Goya 2020 for Best Production Direction for the film While the war lasts(Alejandro Amenábar) and the nomination for the same award in 2015 by The Stranger(Dani de la Torre).

María Jesús Román, will be in charge of the functions of Business-Legal at Fonte Films. Lawyer specialising in the audiovisual sector for more than 20 years and founding partner-director of the firm MRG Lawyers, where she will continue with her functions providing her services for national and international production companies of recognized prestige, she will help in all the processes of legal advice during the development, production and exploitation of the same.

To lead the creative team, Fonte Films has relied on the screenwriter and showrunner Diego Sotelo, who joins as content director and will perform scriptwriter and Showrunner in the company. During his 15 years of career in national fiction, Sotelo has written the script for series recognized by critics and audiences as Los Protegidos, Under Suspicion, Fariña and On death row, of which he was creator and executive producer. His latest work is The Immortal, a fictionalized biopic about the leader of the Miami gang.