Valls, 1910-Barcelona 1994. Film director and producer.
Ignacio Farrés Iquino was born on June 25, 1910, in this house on Cort Street. With a restless and interesting spirit for the plastic arts, as a young man he felt attracted by music and painting, although he ended up devoting himself fully to photography. The latter would take him to the field of cinema.
In 1934 Iquino founded, in Barcelona, the film company Emisora Filmes, with which he made the first films before and during the Civil War. At the end of the war, he directed a dozen films with the companies Campa and CIFESA. But in 1943 he recovered Emisora Films, which would work with an organization that followed the model of the big Hollywood studios, being this one of the first serious attempts to exploit it in Spain.
The period from Iquino to Emisora Films (1943-1948) was frenetic, with constant work as a scriptwriter, director and producer of several films of a dramatic nature, such as ''Cabeza de hierro'' (1944). In 1948, Iquino created the production company IFI, in which he managed to partially import the model of American studios.
Between 1950 and 1982, IFI became a film factory, as directed as it was produced by Iquino, and a true school of filmmakers. The extensive work of Iquino understand different genres, such as criminal with examples such as '' Criminal Brigade ''(1950), religious, with '' The Judas ''(1952), psychological melodrama, with '' Good journey, Paul '' (1959), as well as comedy, literary adaptations and melodrama among others, to which was added the western in the sixties.
Throughout the seventies and eighties he also cultivated cinema-denunciation, starting with ''Criminal Abortion'' (1972), and erotic cinema, especially during the transition years. In 1982, he created the company Conexion Films with which he directed and produced until 1984 three more films.
(Ignacio Farrès Iquino has been one of the most outstanding and prolific directors and producers of 20th century Spanish cinema)
