Pablo Isla, from leading Inditex to producing series with his "business experience" and "deep passion for cinema"

Pablo Isla, executive president of Inditex until this year, has taken a turn in his career to focus on the audiovisual sector, a priori outside his known radius of action in the business sector.

This executive will be producer and president of Fonte Films, a company dedicated to "developing projects of high technical quality with a global vocation" and "committing to new forms of audiovisual expression", to take advantage of and reinforce "the solid Spanish audiovisual industry with the purpose of being an incubator of new national and international talent, of pampering emerging creativity and fostering agreements with other countries".

The former head of

created this production company together with

and the lawyer

, both with extensive experience in the area, one in the field of content and the other in the legal field.

"We are very excited about the creation of

I personally intend to contribute my business experience to the audiovisual world and contribute, from my deep passion for cinema, to the development of the thriving Spanish audiovisual industry," says Isla, as reported by this new company. at its release.

Fonte Films will be dedicated to fiction, as they explain to this newspaper from the production company, that is, it will be specialized in movies and series.

Isla will hold the position of

.

Graduated in Law and State Attorney, he was General Director of State Assets, General Secretary at Banco Popular Español and Co-Chairman of Altadis, until he joined Inditex in 2005, where he has been Vice-Chairman and CEO, as well as Chairman, since 2011 until last March.

Today, Isla sits on the Nestlé board of directors, advises General Atlantic, and chairs the international advisory board of IE University.

Isla is considered one of the best Spanish executives and was recognized worldwide as the best president in the world in 2017 and 2018 in the reference publication Harvard Business Review.

Pérez de Albéniz will be the executive producer of Fonte Films and brings 25 years of experience.

In the last three, this professional has been responsible for the production department of the Movistar+ Originals area.

In 2020, Pérez de Albéniz won a Goya for Best Production Direction for the film 

, by Alejandro Amenábar.

Although they have not coincided in that company, Isla also went through Telefónica, and in fact the leadership of that

remembers him very positively.

From 2005 to 2017, Isla was a director of the Spanish multinational, at the time of César Alierta and at the beginning of José María Álvarez-Pallete, president of Telefónica since 2016.

The legal functions of Fonte Films fall to María Jesús Román, a lawyer specialized in the audiovisual sector for more than 20 years and founding partner-director of the firm MRG Abogados, where she will continue with her functions.

In addition, the creative team will be led by

Director of Content at Fonte Films.

Sotelo has signed fictions such as

and

, as well as

, a biopic about the leader of

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

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