Gerardo Olivares

Biography

Gerardo Olivares (born 1964) is a Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter. He is married with two children and lives in Madrid. He was the first Spanish man to win the Golden Spike at the prestigious Seminci film festival in Valladolid for his film "14 kilómetros". He received the 2019 Cinema for Peace Award for Justice for his film 'Two Catalonias'. A tireless traveler, Olivares began to travel the world in 1987 while studying Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. At the age of twenty he borrowed a Vespa motorcycle from his brother and for four months traveled in the North Cape in Lapland, where he did his first reportage on the nomads who live beyond the Arctic Circle. Back in Madrid, the report was published in Los Aventureros (The Adventurer). Months later he started working under the direction of the journalist and writer Enrique Meneses, whom he has always considered his master. A year later Olivares covered a good part of the Sahara with a Seat Panda, a desert he later crossed on multiple occasions. During this trip he began to mature what would be his first major documentary project, La Ruta de las Córdobas (The Cordobas Route), a trip from Alaska to Tie…

Directed

1. The Lighthouse of the Orcas (2016) — Director
2. Brothers of the Wind (2015) — Director
3. 4L (2019) — Director
4. Among Wolves (2010) — Director
5. Two Catalonias (2018) — Director
6. 100 Days of Loneliness (2018) — Director
7. 14 Kilometers (2007) — Director
8. The Great Match (2006) — Director
9. Eastern Bazaars (2008) — Director
10. Marcos, el lobo solitario (2012) — Director
11. The hunger in the world explained to my son — Director
12. Haramain: The Train of the Desert (2021) — Director
13. Death in Llanes — Director