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Born in rural Galicia, in A Fonsagrada in the province of Lugo, Fern\u00e1ndez was typical of a region which emigrated for larger opportunities in Spain\u2019s fast building cities. Few, however, had Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s ambitions and eye for the main chance. If genre and animation are two of the current international market\u2019s going concerns, Fern\u00e1ndez anticipated this getting on for 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
In 1987, Fern\u00e1ndez bought Filmax, a Paramount<\/a> library movie distributor in the 1960s, dedicated to video, but which Fern\u00e1ndez and younger brother Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> wanted to move into theatrical distribution. Buoyed by cinema theater results for \u201cThe Fourth Consul,\u201d Filmax made another move, into production, and always with one eye on international markets, seeing vibrant international sales on young director Jaume Balaguer\u00f3<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Julio Fern\u00e1ndez, the pioneering founder of Barcelona studio Filmax and co-architect of itsFantastic Factory which galvanised Spain\u2019s auteur genre production, died Nov. 17. in Miami. He was 78. Born in rural Galicia, in A Fonsagrada in the province of Lugo, Fern\u00e1ndez was typical of a region which emigrated for larger opportunities in Spain\u2019s fast building […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2165029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Julio-Fernandez-Filmax-Founder-Fantastic-Factory-Co-Creator-Dies-at-78.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165031,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165029\/revisions\/2165031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}