Basilio Martín Patino

Basilio Martín Patino was born in 1930 in Lumbrales, in the province of Salamanca, the son of two Catholic teachers. A graduate in philosophy and letters from the University of Salamanca, he founded the university film club there and in 1955 organised the Salamanca Conversations, the first critical examination of Spanish cinema. A graduate of the Official School of Cinema in Madrid in 1961, he soon clashed with the censors; two of his documentaries, shot clandestinely, were released only after Franco's death. He received the gold medal of the Spanish Film Academy in 2005 and died in Madrid in 2017.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaNine Letters to BertaNueve cartas a BertaBasilio Martín Patino · 1966Cinema