Elio Quiroga Rodríguez is a Spanish filmmaker and writer from the Canary Islands. His work is primarily devoted to the fantasy genre.
Life and career.
Born in Las Palmas, Elio Quiroga Rodríguez studied a degree on informatics from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His debut feature film as a director, surreal melodrama "Fotos" (1996), is considered to have attained cult status. It was followed by "The Dark Hour" (2006), "The Haunting" (2009), the documentary "The Mystery of the King of Kinema" (2015), and "La estrategia del pequinés" (2019). He has also directed short films, including "Sirena negra", "El último minutero" (which earned a nomination for the Goya Award for Best Documentary Short Film), and "Whence comes the rain".
As a fiction writer, he has penned novels such as "Los que sueñan", "Niños del sol", "Astral" and "Tiempo sucio".